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MILITARY RECORD 

OF THE 

SONS OF DARTMOUTH 

1861-1865 



MILITARY RECORD 



OF THE 

SONS OF DARTMOUTH 

IN THE UNION ARMY AND NAVY 

1861-1865 

COMPILED BY 

MAJOR E. D. REDINGTON, '61 

REVISED AND EDITED BY 

MAJOR W. H. HODGKINS, Hon. '97 

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BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 



MDCCCCVII 



FOREWORD 



Hanovee, N. H., June 30, 1907. 

To THE Alumni and Friends of Dartmouth College: 

A WORK of this kind needs neither preface nor introduction. A 
word of announcement, however, is appropriate in recognition of the 
voluntary and valuable work performed by those who have thus made 
the result possible. This is best stated in the report received by the 
Trustees from the representative of the estate of the late Major 
Hodgkins, who writes as follows : 

" In settling the estate of the late Maj. Wm. H. Hodgkins, Dart- 
mouth hon. '97, among his papers was found ' The Military Record 
of the Sons of Dartmouth in the Union Army and Navy from 1861 
to 1865.' His family tell me ' this work was begun and compiled 
by Maj. E. D. Eedington, late additional pay-master U. S. Army, a 
graduate of the class of '61 of Dartmouth and for many years a 
Trustee of the College,' and has since been revised and corrected by 
Major Hodgkins, well known as a military historian. 

" The work apparently started in 1881 while the late Professor Pol- 
lens was librarian of the College. Through circulars addressed to the 
Alumni he obtained facts concerning the military services of Alumni, 
which he desired to incorporate into a ' Eoll of Honor.' This work 
was supplemented in 1883, when a committee of five was appointed 
by the general Alumni Association to prepare war sketches of Alumni 
to be printed in the Dartmouth. Major Eedington was a member, 
and for many years has been the only survivor, of that committee, 
and in 1894 by resolution passed at Commencement, his work was 
endorsed by the Association. Major Eedington's work subsequently 
came into the hands of Major Hodgkins, and was by the latter 
systematically arranged; dates, rank, and details in each case being 
corrected and verified to 1901, and the whole edited with care, pre- 
paratory to being presented to the press. 

" In addition to the work of Major Eedington and Major Hodg- 
kins, recognition is due to John j\L Comstock, statistical secretary. 
Prof. M. D. Bisbee, librarian, to the various class secretaries, to the 
living Alumni, and to the relatives of those who have died, for the 
information furnished. 

" It has been a pleasure to me to take up the work where Major 
Hodgkins left it, and in accordance with the request of Professor 
Eastman of your Board of Trustees, who had the matter in charge. 



vi FOEEAYOPiD 

I have arranged with the University Press to print the matter, which 
has now, in 1907, been completed. 

" To the present generation the War of the Eebellion is a matter 
of history. To those who were active at that period it recalls the 
magnificent response made from all classes when the life of the 
nation was threatened. No class of people acted more promptly, 
cheerfully, or intelligently than did the college men. Many gave up 
their life work, surrendered bright prospects, and sacrificed all for 
their country. At school, college, and academy, studies were aban- 
doned and students entered the army and navy in all grades, — in 
some cases whole classes enlisted. 

" From the College and the Medical School Dartmouth contributed 
652 of her Alumni and under-graduates — a larger percentage than 
any other college in the North. To place on record the heroic work 
of these sons of Dartmouth, whose names should be imperishably 
immortalized, is an honorable distinction to have been achieved by 
the President and Trustees of the College. 

" A debt of gratitude from the Alumni and all interested in the 
College is thus due to the Administration for having placed before 
succeeding generations a record which all may see; and, emulating 
the lives and characters of those therein enrolled, all who read may 
be stimulated to nobler deeds, to loftier aims, and pledge anew their 
devotion to our country, its institutions, and traditions." 

The foregoing notes by C. T. Gallagher, hon. '9i, on the inception, 
progress, and completion of the Dartmouth Poll of Honor, set forth 
with sufficient clearness the quality and magnitude of the labor 
required to produce the following tribute to the patriotic spirit of 
the sons of Dartmouth. These brief sketches form a priceless memo- 
rial to the Dartmouth scholar, patriot, and soldier. 

The Committee of Trustees on Publication. 



DARTMOUTH ROLL OF HONOR 



1822. Henry Wood: Was ap- 
pointed chaplain U. S. Navy, with 
rank of lieutenant, Sept. 11, 1856. 
Retired Dec. 21, 1864, being 68 
years of age. On duty at navy 
yard at Portsmouth, N. H., to 
1864, except in 1863, when he was 
on duty at naval asylum at Phila- 
delphia. Died Oct. 9, 1873, at 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

1822. Ebenezer Hunt, D.M.C.: 
Was commissioned assistant sur- 
geon Eighth Regiment Massachu- 
setts Volunteers July 29, 1864, for 
100 days, although sixty-four years 
of age: discharged Nov. 10, 1864, 
at the expiration of term of service. 
Died, 1874. 

1822. Benjamin Walton, D.M.C.: 
Was appointed from Massachusetts, 
Nov. 15, 1862, acting assistant sur- 
geon in the U. S. Navy; in 1862 
and 1863 was on duty on the " Gem 
of the Seas " in the East Gulf 
Blockading Squadron; in 1864, on 
the same vessel at Philadelphia. 
Died, 1873. 

1825. Nathaniel Gould Ladd, 
D.M.C. : Was connected for a few 
weeks with the army in hospital 
service. Died March 20, 1885. 

1826. Luther V. Bell, D.M.C: 
Although ten years beyond the age 
when military duty could be re- 
quired of him, and being himself a 
subject of treatment under pulmo- 
nary disease, he offered his services 
to the government and was commis- 
sioned surgeon of the Eleventh Reg- 
iment Massachusetts Volunteers 
June 13, 1861; mustered into ser- 
vice the same day; discharged on 
the 8th day of September, 1861, 
to accept appointment as brigade 



surgeon of General Hooker's Bri- 
gade. Promoted medical director of 
Hooker's Division, and died Feb. 
11, 1862, at Budd's Ferry, Va., 
after a brief illness of pneumo- 
nia. He was present at the first 
battle in which the Army of the 
Potomac was engaged, and upon the 
organization of that army in the au- 
tumn of 1861, accepted promotion, 
and devoted himself to the great 
work of his profession. After the 
first battle of Bull Run he thus 
wrote to a friend : " The whole vol- 
ume of military surgery was opened 
before me on Svuiday afternoon 
(July 21, 1861) with illustrations 
horrid and sanguinary. Sudley 
Church with its hundred wounded 
victims will form a picture in my 
sick dreams so long as I live. I 
have never spent one night out of 
camp since 1 came into it, and a 
bed and myself have been strangers, 
practically, for months ; yet I have 
never had one beginning of a regret 
at my decision to devote what may 
be left of life and ability to the 
great cause. I have, as you know, 
four young motherless children. 
Painful as it is to leave such a 
charge, I have forced myself into 
reconciliation by the reflection that 
the great issue under the stern arbit- 
rament of arms is. whether or not 
our children are to have a country." 
1826. Samuel Burbank Straw, 
D.M.C. : Was commissioned cap- 
tain of Company E, Eleventh Maine 
Volunteers, Nov. 4, 1861, and re- 
signed March 18, 1862; was com- 
missioned as assistant surgeon 
Sixth Maine Volunteers Aug. 15, 
1863, and was mustered out with 



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the regiment Aug. 16, 1864. At the 
breaking out of the war, Dr. Straw, 
although 61 years of age and not 
liable for military duty, closed his 
office, raised a company of recruits, 
and went with it to the front. He 
could not endure the fatigue inci- 
dent to the long marches that the 
regiment had to make, and resigned 
as above. His intense patriotism, 
however, gave him no rest, and he 
later applied for an appointment as 
surgeon; after being mustered out 
of the Sixth Maine, as noted above, 
he tendered his services to Dr. Mc- 
Dougal in charge of the Medical De- 
partment of New York and was 
sent to Lansingburg to take charge 
of a hospital for wounded soldiers, 
remaining there a year, and was 
then transferred to a hospital for 
Confederate soldiers at Elmira, 
N. Y., where he remained till the 
close of the war. Died Aug. 4, 
1884. 

1827. Gilman Kimball, D.M.C.: 
Was commissioned brigade surgeon 
and medical director United States 
Volunteers Oct. 2, 1861; resigned 
May 21, 1862. Died July 27, 1892. 

1829^ Thomas Crumble Barker, 
D.M.C.: Was commissioned sur- 
geon Seventh Maine Volunteers 
Aug. 21, 1861 ; resigned Dec. 4, 
1861. Died, 1870. 

1829. Charles William Woodman: 
Was appointed from New Hamp- 
shire additional paymaster United 
States Volunteers, with rank of 
major, Nov. 2(\, 1862. The appoint- 
ment was revoked May 4, 1863, 
on account of disability. Died at 
Dover. N. H., Jan. 24, "l888. 

1831. Frederick Augustus Barton : 
Was largely instrumental in rais- 
ing the Tenth Regiment of Massa- 
chusetts Infantry, and expected col- 
onelcy of the regiment, but was 
disappointed. He then accepted the 
appointment of chaplain of the regi- 
ment, and was mustered into the 
United States service on the 21st 
day of June, 1861. 

The regiment left the State July 



24. Chaplain Barton was with 
the regiment in camp at Washing- 
ton until it was ordered to Y^ork- 
town, Va., in 1862, and remained 
on duty until May of the same 
year. Died Feb. 23, 1881. 

1831. George Wheelock Wood- 
ward: Was commissioned chap- 
lain Forty-fifth Regiment Illinois 
Volunteers Jan. 1, 1862; resigned 
Jan. 28, 1863. During Chaplain 
W^oodward's connection with the 
regiment, it saw service at Fort 
Donelson and Shiloh and subse- 
quent campaigns under General 
Grant. Died June 29, 1887. 

1831. Joseph Nye Bates, D.M.C.: 
Was commissioned surgeon of the 
Fifteenth Regiment Massachusetts 
Volunteers Aug. 5, 1861; dis- 
charged July 17, 1862, on account 
of ill health. His conduct at Ball's 
Bluff and Fair Oaks was officially 
commended; but jjrotracted sick- 
ness caused him to retire from the 
service. Died Feb. 22, 1883. 

1831. Jonas Colby, D.M.C: Dr. 
Colby located at Defiance, Ohio, in 
1832, and afterwards went to Kan- 
sas, where he remained several 
years, serving as physician, surgeon, 
and associate justice of W^illiams 
County. Returning to his old home 
he served as chairman of a military 
committee. Was appointed examin- 
ing surgeon with the rank of major, 
and served three years during the 
war in the enrolment and drafting 
of recruits. After the war he served 
as examining surgeon for the Pen- 
sion Department several years. He 
was a noted surgeon. Died May 28, 
1876. 

1832. Joseph Dana Webster: 
Appointed U. S. Civil Engineer 
1835. Entered the army as second 
lieutenant U. S. Topographical En- 
gineers July 7, 1838; promoted first 
lieutenant July 14, 1849. and cap- 
tain, March 3, 1853; resigned April 
7, 1854. He served in the Mexican 
War. He entered the service of the 
State of Illinois at the opening of 
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fortifications at Cairo, 111., and Pa- 
ducah, Ky., in April, and was made 
paymaster, with rank of major. 
United States Volunteers on June 1, 
but in February, 1862, became colonel 
of the First Illinois Artillery. He 
was chief of General Grant's staff 
for several months, was present at 
the capture of Fort Henry and Fort 
Donelson, and at Shiloh was also 
chief of artillery. At the close of 
the first day's fight at Shiloh, he oc- 
cupied, with all available artillery, 
the ridge that covered Pittsburg 
Landing, thus checking the hitherto 
victorious enemy. He received the 
highest commendation in General 
Grant's official report, and continued 
to be his chief of staff till in Octo- 
ber, 1862, he was detailed by the 
War Department to make a sur- 
vey of the Illinois and Michigan 
canal. He was commissioned brig- 
adier-general of volunteers Nov. 
29, 1862, and after serving some 
time as military governor of Mem- 
phis, Tenn., and as superintendent 
of military railroads, was again 
Grant's chief of staff in the Vicks- 
burg campaign. In 1864 he was 
with General Sherman as chief of 
staff, and was assigned to head- 
quarters of Gen. George H. Thomas, 
and was with him at the defeat 
of Hood's army at the battle of 
Nashville, December, 1864. He was 
with General Sherman in the final 
campaign in the Carol inas, and 
was brevetted major-general United 
States Volunteers. Resigned Nov. 
6, 1865, and returned to Chicago, 
where he remained the rest of his 
life. Died March 12, 1876. He was 
among the oldest graduates of Dart- 
mouth engaged in putting down 
the rebellion, rendering most dis- 
tinguished service, and conferring 
honor upon his Alma Mater. 
1832. Ezra Bartlett, D.M.C. : Was 
appointed contract surgeon with the 
title of acting assistant surgeon, 
leaving Exeter, N. H., for Washing- 
ton, Jan. 12, 186.3. On the 21st 
day of January was ordered to re- 



port to headquarters of the Army 
of the Potomac, but in consequence 
of a change in commanders, Dr. 
Bartlett returned to Washington 
and was assigned to duty in Armory 
Square Hospital. March 20, 1863, 
he was ordered to St. Louis and 
thence to Memphis, Tenn. When 
General Grant commenced his move- 
ment against Vicksburg, Dr. Bart- 
lett was assigned to duty in Van 
Buren Hospital, twelve miles above 
Vicksburg. On the breaking up of 
the hospital, August 28, he was as- 
signed to duty with the escort of 
General Headquarters, under Lieut.- 
Col. J. C. Smith, chief quarter- 
master of the Fifteenth Army Corps. 
On the 28th of September the 
army left Black River for Vicks- 
burg to go on board transports for 
Memphis, the objective point being 
Chattanooga. The headquarter 
escort of General Sherman left 
Memphis October 11, and on the 
trip to Chattanooga the train bear- 
ing General Sherman and escort 
was attacked by the Confederate 
General Chalmers, who, after a 
sharp fight, was repelled. It was 
learned from rebel prisoners, taken 
at this time, that General Chal- 
mers had information given him of 
the departure of General Sherman 
from Memphis, and his attack, which 
signally failed, was made for the 
purpose of capturing General Sher- 
man. November 4, near Water- 
loo, Ala., the quartermaster's train 
was attacked by a company of 
Rhoddy's command, which did some 
damage to the train. On the 25th 
of December Dr. Bartlett went with 
General Logan to Scottsboro, Ala., 
where he passed the winter, hav- 
ing in charge the sick of the bat- 
teries of the Fourth Division of the 
Fifteenth Army Corps, under the 
command of General Harrow. 
When General Sherman commenced 
his Atlanta campaign. Dr. Bartlett 
was assigned to duty in hospitals at 
Huntsville, Ala. July 13 he was 
ordered to report for duty at a 



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hospital at Marietta, Ga. After 
the capture of Atlanta he reported 
for duty to Surgeon George F. 
French, in charge of hospitals at 
Atlanta. When Sherman com- 
menced his march to the sea, Dr. 
Bartlett was put in charge of in- 
valids and came -with them to Chat- 
tanooga and Nashville, thence re- 
turning to Exeter, his home, in De- 
cember, 1864. In January, 1865, 
he went to Hilton Head, S. C, 
thence to Savannah, serving in 
hospitals till June 30; was mus- 
tered out of the service July 4, 
18G5. Died June 16, 1892. 
1832. Calvin Cutter, D.M.C. : Com- 
missioned surgeon Twenty-first 
Regiment Massachusetts Volun- 
teers Aug. 21, 1861, and pro- 
ceeded with the regiment to An- 
napolis, Md., where it joined the 
Expeditionary Corps commanded 
by General Burnside ; went to North 
Carolina, and was engaged at Roa- 
noke Island, Newbern, and Camden. 
In July, 1862, the regiment was 
sent to Virginia, and became a por- 
tion of the Ninth Army Corps, whose 
fortunes it shared during the re- 
mainder of the war. He was en- 
gaged in the second battle of Bull 
Run, Chantilly, South Mountain, 
Antietam and Fredericksburg. He 
went to Kentucky in April, 1863, 
and later took part in the East 
Tennessee campaign. In the spring 
of 1864 the regiment rejoined the 
Army of the Potomac in Virginia, 
and participated in the battles of 
General Grant's Richmond cam- 
paign. Surgeon Cutter was com- 
mended for his conduct in the bat- 
tles in which he was engaged. At 
Newbern he served as brigade sur- 
geon. At second Bull Run he was 
acting division surgeon, and went 
into action with General Reno. 
As one of the regiments broke, Dr. 
Cutter, in trying to rally it, was 
seen to fall, and was left upon the 
field, and mourned as dead. A few 
days later he walked into camp as 
well as ever. He had been struck 



on the plate of his waist-belt by a 
musket ball, and fell senseless. 
When he tried to rise a rebel at- 
tacked him with a bayonet. The 
doctor said, " Don't touch me ; I am 
a surgeon." The rebel said with an 
oath, " You 've got a sword in your 
hand now." An officer coming up, 
the doctor pointed to his green sash, 
and Avas adjudged a non-combatant, 
and left free to do as he pleased. 
He was well treated at Gen. A. P. 
Hill's headquarters, and was al- 
lowed to depart the next day, and 
make his way to the Union lines. 
Soon after the Battle of the Wilder- 
ness Dr. Cutter resigned, and was 
mustered out May 17, 1864. Died 
June 20, 1873. 

1832. Lewis Darling, D.M.C: 
Was appointed surgeon One Hun- 
dred and Sixty-first Regiment New 
York Volunteers without having 
made application for the appoint- 
ment. The date of the appoint- 
ment was Sept. 15, 1862. His 
regiment was ordered South and 
joined General Banks' army, De- 
partment of the Gulf. He ac- 
companied his regiment in the 
Red River campaign and was pres- 
ent at the siege of Port Hudson. 
He was universally respected and 
loved by the officers and soldiers of 
his regiment. On account of poor 
health and old age he was com- 
pelled, after short service, to resign 
his position and return home. Died 
July 23, 1882. 

1832. Jonathan Burnham Kins- 
man, D.M.C: Served as a con- 
tract surgeon in the United States 
Hospital, at Hampton, Va., for some 
time during the war. Died Sept. 
17, 1883. at Dover, Me. 

1834. Rufus Gilpatrick, D.M.C: 
Went to Kansas in 1854, and was 
one of the foremost actors in the 
stirring events that attended the 
organization of that State. He was 
an intimate friend of Capt. John 
Brown, with whom he was identified 
in the "underground" railway oper- 
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acted in the great struggle. He was 
president of tlie first Stiite Con- 
gressional Convention, presidential 
elector in 18G0, and was a member 
of the territorial legislature. In 
the beginning of the Civil War he 
acted as surgeon in charge of a bri- 
gade organized by Gen. James 
H. Lane, with whom he was closely 
connected in public affairs. He 
served with the Army of the Fron- 
tier, first as surgeon of volunteers, 
and afterwards as a secret agent of 
the United States, in connection 
with the arduous campaigns of that 
army, and was killed April 14, 1863, 
at Webber's Falls, in the Indian 
Territory, by Confederate soldiers, 
while he was attending a wounded 
man at some little distance from 
the command. 

1835. Stephen Sewall Norton 
Greeley: Was commissioned chap- 
lain of the Sixth Michigan Cavalry 
Oct. 15, 1862; resigned June 26, 
1865, upon the close of the war. 
The Sixth Michigan Regiment was 
one of several Michigan regiments 
composing General Custer's brigade 
of cavalry, which served in the 
Army of the Potomac and sustained 
a reputation second to none, under 
that gallant commander and his 
superior officer. General Sheridan. 
Gen. Russell A. Alger, of Michi- 
gan, says of Mr. Greeley : " I was 
very fond indeed of Mr. Greeley. I 
united with his church in 1860; he 
married me in 1861, and went out as 
chaplain of the Sixth Cavalry, of 
■which I was lieutenant-colonel. He 
was an amiable, lovable man; ec- 
centric, but always good." Died 
Oct. 25, 1892. 

1835. Peter Thacher Washburn: 
Was commissioned lieutenant-col- 
onel of the First Vermont Volun- 
teers — three months' troops — 
April 26, 1861. He was at that 
time a leading lawyer of Wood- 
stock, Vt., and captain of the Wood- 
stock Light Infantry, which was 
considered the best military com- 
pany in the State. The regiment 



saw service in Gen. B. F. Butler's 
division, in the vicinity of Fort 
Monroe, and at Newport News. 
Five companies of the regiment were 
in the battle of Big Bethel, under 
the command of Lieutenant-Colonel 
Washburn. Although this expedi- 
tion was unsuccessful, there is am- 
ple testimony as to the coolness 
and courage of Lieutenant-Colonel 
Washburn, both from friends and 
strangers. Benedict, in his " Ver- 
mont in the Civil War," says that 
" The final and really only for- 
midable assault on the works at 
Big Bethel was made by Colonel 
Washburn's regiment." He was 
mustered out Aug. 25, 1861. In 
the fall of that year. Colonel Wash- 
burn was elected adjutant-general 
of the State, occupying that office 
during the war, and it is univer- 
sally conceded that the records of 
his office were models of accuracy 
and completeness. Died Feb. 7, 
1870. 

1835. William Whittier Brown, 
D.M.C. : Was commissioned sur- 
geon of the Seventh Regiment New 
Hampshire Volunteers Oct. 19, 
1861, and resigned July 22, 1864. 
During Surgeon Brown's connection 
with the regiment, it served in the 
Department of the South, mostly 
in South Carolina, and took part 
in the assaults on Fort Wagner, 
and in the siege of the same strong- 
hold, from Sept. 7, to Dec. 20, 1863. 
During all this time it was attached 
to the Tenth Army Corps. Died at 
Manchester, N. H., Jan. 6, 1874. 

1835. Hiram Dow, D.M.C: En- 
listed in Company G, Sixth Regi- 
ment New Hampshire Infantry 
Volunteers Sept. 30, 1861; dis- 
charged June 18, 1862, at New- 
bern, N. C. During the time Mr. 
Dow was connected with the regi- 
ment, its service was with Gen- 
eral Burnside in North Carolina. 
Died Oct. 24, 1873, at Plainfield, 
N. H. 

1835. Luther Martin Knight, 
D.M.C. : Was connuissioncd Sept. 



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DARTMOUTH ROLL OF HOXOR 



13, 1861, as surgeon Fifth Regi- 
ment New Hampshire Volunteers; 
afterwards appointed brigade sur- 
geon on the staff of Brig.-Gen. O. 
O. Howard, holding this position at 
the battle of Fair Oaks, Va., where 
General Howard lost his right arm. 
After a medical examination, he 
was made, by general order, chief 
medical ollicer of the First Division, 
Second Army Corps, on the staff 
of General Hancock, being promoted 
for saving the Corps Ambulance 
train in the battle of White Oak 
Swamp in 1802. He was in nearly 
all the great battles of the Army of 
the Potomac, namely: Fair Oaks, 
Malvern Hill, all of the Seven Days' 
Fight, Fredericksburg, South Moun- 
tain, Antietam, Chancellorsville, 
as well as in some minor battles 
and skirmishes. He resigned May 
28, 1863, on surgeon's certificate of 
total disability. Died at Franklin, 
N. H., Feb. 3,*1889. 

1835. William Payson Stone, 
D.M.C. : Was commissioned assist- 
ant surgeon Second Regiment New 
Hampshire Volunteers Oct. 22, 
1862; mustered out to accept pro- 
motion, June 21, 1864; commis- 
sioned surgeon, July 6, 1864; mus- 
tered out. Dee. 19, 1865. Died, 
1872. 

The Second New Hampshire had 
among its field and staff officers 
eight Dartmouth men. 

1836. John Bodman Rollins: 
Was commissioned captain of Com- 
pany H, Fourth Regiment Massa- 
chusetts Volunteers, Sept. 19, 1862; 
discharged on Aug. 28, 1863, by 
reason of expiration of service. 
The Fourth Regiment joined Gen- 
eral Banks' army in Louisiana, and 
was at first assigned to General 
Ingraham's Brigade of General 
Emory's Division, and was actively 
engaged in the feint upon Port 
Hudson, March, 1863, when Ad- 
miral Farrngut passed the batteries. 
The regiment then returned to 
Baton Rouge and proceeded to New 
Orleans and Brashear City, then the 



depot of supplies for the Army of 
the Southwest, where it was sta- 
tioned till about the last of May, 
when it was again ordered to New 
Orleans and thence to Port Hudson 
to participate in the final invest- 
ment of that stronghold. 

In the assault on the 14th of 
June, the regiment was attached to 
Ferris's Brigade of Paine's Division. 
This division suffered a loss of 
800 men; Captain Rollins' Com- 
pany mustering 50 men had 8 
wounded but none killed. Prior 
to leaving for Port Hudson the last 
time. Company H was on detailed 
duty at Fort Chene, a small forti- 
fication which commanded one of 
the approaches to New Orleans from 
Atchafalaya. After Port Hudson 
surrendered on the 8th day of July, 
the regiment was made a part of 
the garrison until after all the 
prisoners were paroled, when the 
term of service having expired the 
regiment was ordered home. Cap- 
tain Rollins was in all the move- 
ments of his regiment, except for a 
few weeks, when he was in the hos- 
pital with malarial fever. Died 
Sept. 12. 1892, at East Derry, N. H. 
1836. Claudius Buchanan Web- 
ster: Not being subject to draft 
because of age, he went to Washing- 
ton in the autumn of 1862, and 
off"ered his services to the govern- 
ment and was assigned to duty as 
acting assistant surgeon in the U. 
S. Army, in charge of the hospital 
at the Contraband Camp. As our 
armies moved south the fugitives 
from St. Louis flocked in great num- 
bers to Washington, and were given 
quarters north of the city on ground 
now occupied by " Iowa Circle." 

Hundreds of cases of smallpox 
broke out among the negroes dur- 
ing the winter of 1862-1863. In the 
autunm of 1863 the camp was re- 
moved to what was called Freed- 
men's Village on the estate of Gen- 
eral Lee, south of the Potomac. 

Dr. Webster continued his ser- 
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when he was ordered to the South- 
west. Had charge of hospital train 
on the Louisville and Nashville R. 
R., transporting sick and wounded 
soldiers from the hospitals at the 
front to the North. 

While engaged in this work he 
was prostrated by a severe illness, 
and on his recovery was ordered 
to service at Jefferson Hospital, 
Jeffersonville, Ind. Was on duty 
there till the close of the war. Died, 
1!)02. 
1836. Joseph Cummings Batchel- 
der, D.M.G. : W^as appointed, March 
1, 1S62, assistant surgeon of the 
Twenty-fifth Massachusetts Volun- 
teers. His first service was ren- 
dered at the battle of Newbern, 
N. C, and he followed the fortunes 
of the regiment until his health 
broke down from fatigue and pros- 
tration, and he was honorably dis- 
charged from the service in Au- 
gust of that year. Died April 26, 
1S85. 

1836. Moses CoHins Greene, 
D.M.C. : Was on duty as surgeon 
at Fort Independence, Boston Har- 
bor, for some time during the year 
1864, upon the call of the surgeon- 
general U. S. Army for volunteer 
surgical assistance. Died Nov. 20, 
1889, at Somerville, Mass. 

1837. Gilman Marston: Entered 
the military service as colonel of 
Second Regiment New Hampshire 
Volunteers May, 1861. Continued 
in command of said regiment until 
March, 1863, when he assumed the 
position of brigadier-general of 
volunteers, to which he was ap- 
pointed Nov. 29, 1862. While in 
command of the Second New Hamp- 
shire, participated in the battle of 
Bull Run, July 21, 1861, in the bri- 
gade commanded by General Bum- 
side; in the battle of Williamsburg, 
May 5, 1862, in Grover's Brigade. 
Hooker's Division ; in the siege of 
Yorktown; and in most of the bat- 
tles before Richmond. In McClel- 
lan's campaign of that year engaged 
in the battles of Glendale and Mal- 



vern Hill. Left the Peninsula 
with General McClellan in August, 
1862, and joined General Pope's 
army at Warrenton Junction, Au- 
gust 28. Engaged General Ewell at 
Bristow Station Aug. 27, 1862, and 
participated in the battle of Grove- 
ton, Aug. 29 and 30, losing a third 
of his regiment. Was in the fight 
at Chantilly, September 2, and in 
the battle of Fredericksburg under 
General Burnside. In June, 1863, 
was assigned as brigadier-general to 
the command of troops stationed on 
the Potomac, near Poolsville; and 
in July to the command of the mili- 
tary district of St. Mary's, with 
headquarters at Point Lookout, 
Md. ; in April, 1864, to the com- 
mand of a brigade of New York 
troops in Brooks' division, Smith's 
corps. Army of the James, at 
Bermuda Hundred. Was in battle 
near Drury's Bluff under General 
Butler. In June, with his brigade 
joined the Army of the Potomac un- 
der General Meade, at Cold Harbor, 
and lost heavily in that battle. Re- 
turned with Smith's Corps to the 
Army of the James, at Bermuda 
Hundred, and participated in the 
attack on Petersburg. In July was 
assigned to the command of troops 
lying at various pointsonthe James 
River below City Point, with head- 
quarters at Fort Pocahontas. In 
October, was assigned to the com- 
mand of a division in the Tenth 
Army Corps in front of Fort Har- 
rison, and participated in the en- 
gagements on that line during the 
remainder of the year. Resigned 
his commission as brigadier-general 
at the close of the war. 

Francis S. Fiske, lieutenant-col- 
onel of the Second New Hampshire, 
himself a graduate of Dartmouth 
in the class of 1843, says of General 
Marston, on the occasion of the 
dedication of a moniunent to him 
in 1890: 

" He was the embodiment of all 
that was best and noblest in that 
noble body of men who formed the 



DARTMOUTH EOLL OF HONOE 



Second New Hampshire. He knew 
and understood the character of 
New Hampshire men, among whom 
he had lived all his life. He knew 
his soldiers thoroughly, and they 
knew him, and were proud that Gov- 
ernor Goodwin had given them as 
their colonel one so high in position 
and character. He was careful of 
the welfare of his men. He felt the 
full responsibility of his position, 
and that not only the lives but also 
the health and comfort of his men 
were under his charge, and that 
he was their protector in all their 
rights. When the general com- 
manding him ordered the Second 
New Hampshire to embark for York- 
town on an overloaded boat, Gen- 
eral Marston said, ' My men came 
here to fight like men, not to drown 
like rats.' The order was repeated, 
but not a man was permitted to ap- 
proach the wharf until the boat was 
unladen of the baggage trains on 
her deck. At the second battle of 
Bull Run, when ordered to make one 
of the most desperate charges of the 
war, he said, ' Many of us will go 
in who will never come out, but I 
know that every man will do his 
duty in it;' and charging with his 
men, with bullet and bayonet and 
rifle-butt, they swept away the first 
rebel line, crashed through the 
second line, and, with unfaltering 
spirit; but less in numbers, charged 
but failed to carry the third line. 
Such a commander was our general, 
and it is to him we off"er this monu- 
ment with our inscription upon it." 
General Marston died July 3, 
1S9(). 
1837. Lucius Leslie Scammell: 
Was appointed acting assistant 
surgeon Jan. 29, 1864, and assigned 
to duty at the Contraband Camp, 
near Arlington Heights, Va. Was 
put in charge of the hospital at 
that place July 1, 1804, in place of 
Dr. Garland, who then resigned. 

During the time of his service in 
this camp, a large number of ne- 
groes were sent back from the West 



Indies and placed under his charge 
for treatment. The work was neces- 
sarily very exhaustive, and the en- 
tire force of surgeons and hospital 
stewards were frequently down with 
the malaria. 

Shortly before the close of the war 
he resigned. Died Feb. 13. 1892. 
1837. George Foster Shepley: 
Appointed colonel of the Twelfth 
Maine Volunteers Sept. 27, 1861. 
His regiment formed a part of the 
New England Division of G«n. B. F. 
Butler, at whose earnest solicita- 
tion he was appointed and induced 
to accept the position. The expedi- 
tion of which his regiment was a 
part embarked January, 1862, with 
orders to report at Fort Monroe. 
After considerable detention at 
Hampton Roads, on account of the 
hesitation of the then commanding 
general of the army to allow any 
demonstration to be made against 
New Orleans with so small a force 
as that placed under the command 
of General Butler, General Shepley 
was allowed to proceed, and sailed 
for Ship Island, where he arrived 
on the 12th of February. On the 
22d of March, 1862, he was placed 
in command of the Third Brigade, 
which consisted of the Twelfth, 
Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fif- 
teenth Maine Regiments, the Thir- 
tieth Massachusetts Regiment, the 
First Maine Battery, and Magee's 
Cavalry. On the occupation of New 
Orleans by General Butler, he was 
made military commandant of New 
Orleans. Not long after. General 
Butler having removed the rebel 
mayor of New Orleans from of- 
fice, General Shepley was ordered 
to take the administration of 
the civil government of the city. 
He retained in force such laws and 
general ordinances of the city as 
were not inconsistent with the laws 
of the United States or the orders 
of the commanding general, and 
continued in force all the contracts 
legally entered into by the city, 
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his part, and required them to be 
faithfully performed on the part 
of the contractors. All persons 
holding ottice under the city having 
been reijuired by General Butler to 
take the oath of allegiance to the 
United States or vacate their offices, 
the aldermen and members of the 
council declined to take the oath. 
General Shepley, instead of supply- 
ing their places, disposed entirely of 
the two boards, and organized an 
Executive Board of the city and 
Bureau of Officers, acting directly 
under his authority. This form of 
administering the city affairs 
proved so successful that it was 
continued during all successive 
military and civil administrations, 
even after civil government was re- 
stored in all the rest of the State, 
and during the administration of 
two successive governors who were 
elected by the people. As a result 
of General Shepley's rule, New Or- 
leans became as healthy, cleanly, or- 
derly, and well governed as any city 
in the country. In recognition of the 
great ability displayed by him, both 
as a civil and military ruler under 
General Butler, President Lincoln, 
on the recommendation of the Secre- 
tary of War, on the 3d day of June, 
1862, appointed him military gov- 
ernor of the State of Louisiana. On 
the 20th day of July he was ap- 
pointed brigadier-general, to rank 
from July 18. He continued to 
exercise the functions of military 
governor until the inauguration of 
a civil governor elected by the peo- 
ple, when he was, at his own re- 
quest, relieved by the president 
and ordered to report again to the 
adjutant general of the army for 
service in the field. When he left 
New Orleans, a large number of 
leading and influential citizens is- 
sued an address highly commenda- 
tory of his- administration in Loui- 
siana. After leaving Louisiana he 
was ordered to report for duty in 
the Department of Virginia and 
North Carolina. He was then 



placed in command of the Military 
District of Eastern Virginia, which 
included the important posts and 
garrisons of Fort Monroe, Newport 
News, Yorktown, Williamsburg, 
Norfolk, Portsmouth, the eastern 
part of Virginia, and that portion 
of North Carolina north of Albe- 
marle Sound. After quite a lengthy 
service in command of this mili- 
tary district, he again took the 
field as chief of staff to Major-Gen- 
eral Weitzel, and was for a short 
time, during the absence of General 
Weitzel, commanding the Twenty- 
fifth Army Corps. He continued 
with the Army of the James dur- 
ing the I'emainder of the campaign, 
entering Richmond with General 
Weitzel's command — which were 
the first troops to enter the city 
after its fall — ^ and was appointed 
the first military governor of that 
city. He resigned his commission 
at the close of the war, his resig- 
nation taking effect July 1, 1865. 
Died July 20, 1S7S. 
1837. Oliver Chamberlain, D.M.C. : 
Was appointed surgeon United 
States Volunteers in the fall of 
1801 from Illinois; was assigned 
to duty at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., 
in charge of a recruiting camp; in 
the latter part of the following win- 
ter M'as placed in charge of the hos- 
pital at Leavenworth, but very soon 
afterwards was attached to the 
Eighth Kansas Infantry, and sent 
south to the Army of the Cumber- 
land. In the spring of 1802 Dr. 
Chamberlain was ordered by General 
Mitchell to take possession of a 
building at Union City, Tenn., col- 
lect supplies for a hospital, and 
gather the sick and wounded from 
the various camps that had been left, 
and take charge of it till further 
orders. About two months after- 
wards he was ordered to join his 
regiment which participated in the 
pursuit of General Bragg in his 
march on Louisville, Ky., and Perry- 
ville: from there he was ordered to 
Nashville, Tenn., and put in charge 



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DARTMOUTH ROLL OF HOXOE 



of a convalescent camp of 7000, and 
subsequently established a hospital 
for the wounded in the battle of Stone 
River. This hospital was continued 
after the battle, and Dr. Chamber- 
lain remained in charge for nearly a 
year, when he was ordered to his 
regiment and found it destitute of 
supplies. The regiment was ordered 
to follow Bragg again, and brought 
up at Chattanooga. After the bat- 
tle of Chickamauga he was assigned 
to duty in Chattanooga, and placed 
in charge of two churches which 
were used as a hospital ; here he 
was under fire from Lookout Moun- 
tain, the shells occasionally falling 
in the vicinity of the hospital. 
While in Chattanooga, just after 
the battle of Mission Ridge, Dr. 
Chamberlain fitted up a hospital in 
that city, whicli he had charge of 
until the spring of 1864. On ac- 
count of the severe strain, result- 
ing from the service in connection 
with this hospital. Dr. Chamber- 
lain was obliged to tender his resig- 
nation, which was accepted, Sept. 3, 
1864. 

1837. Josiah Calef Eastman, 
D.M.C. : Was commissioned sur- 
geon Fourth Regiment New Hamp- 
shire Volunteers Aug. 20, 1861 ; 
resigned Oct. 7, 1862. During Sur- 
geon Eastman's connection with the 
regiment it served in the Depart- 
ment of South Carolina, mostly in 
the vicinity of Hilton Head and 
Beaufort. Died Nov. 27, 1897. 

1838. Frank Emerson: Was ap- 
pointed colonel of the Sixty-seventh 
Regiment Indiana Volunteers Aug. 
27, 1862, having previously served 
as second lieutenant Third Dra- 
goons U. S. Army in 1848. He was 
woxmded at Arkansas Post Jan. 11, 

1863, and at Mansfield. La., April 8. 

1864. Continvied in the service till 
Sept. 30, 1864, when he was dis- 
charged on account of disability, 
resulting from wounds. Died Jan. 
26, 1894. 

1838. Hewett Chandler Eessen- 
den: Is reported to have served as 



acting assistant surgeon U. S. Army, 
Died, 1885. 

1838. Otis Hoyt, D.IM.C. : Served 
as surgeon during the Mexican War. 
Commissioned surgeon Thirtieth 
Regiment Wisconsin Infantry Vol- 
imteers Sept. 8, 1862. Brigade 
surgeon Second Brigade, Second Di- 
vision, military district of Ken- 
tucky, from Dee. 16, 18G4, to March, 
1865. Post surgeon, Louisville, 
Ky., from INIarch 7, 1865, to Sept. 
20, 1865, when he was mustered out 
upon the termination of the war. 
Dr. Hoyt rendered very efficient ser- 
vice as post surgeon, and in charge 
of the post hospital, and received 
high commendation for skill and 
ability as post medical director. 
Died Nov. 12, 1885. 

1839. William Go van: At the out- 
break of the Civil War, and for sev- 
eral years previous, Mr. Govan was 
surgeon of the Seventeenth Regi- 
ment, New York State National" 
Guards. When Lee's forces were 
approaching Gettysburg in 1863, the 
regiment was ordered by the gover- 
nor of the State to go to the field, 
and was mustered into the volun- 
teer service of the United States, 
but reached Gettysburg only to see 
the result of the battle. The re- 
mainder of the time, while the reg- 
iment was in the service, it was 
kept as a reserve and used to guard 
prisoners, and saw considerable 
hardship. After about a year's ser- 
vice, tlie regiment was ordered home 
to protect New York City. Sur- 
geon Govan was mustered out of the 
service with his regiment at that 
place. Died March 22, 1894. 

1839. Jonas Bowen Clarke: Com- 
missioned chaplain of the Twenty- 
third Massachusetts Volunteers 
Sept. 18, 1861. Proceeded with his 
regiment to Annapolis, Md., and 
was assigned to the expedition im- 
der command of Major-General 
Burnside. It participated in the 
operations of that command at 
Roanoke Island and Newbern, N. C. 
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DAETMOUTH EOLL OF HONOE 



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was on provost duty in the summer 
of 1SG2. 

During his service he was ac- 
tively engaged on special duty in 
connection with the hospitals, and 
as sanitary commissioner for the 
Department of North Carolina. 
In discharging this duty he con- 
veyed sick and wounded soldiers to 
their homes in New York, New 
Jersey, and the New England States, 
and in shipping supplies and sani- 
tary stores from Massachusetts to 
North Carolina. He also inspected 
the sanitary conditions of camps, 
and was post chaplain of the Con- 
valescent Camp on Trent River 
in the spring of 1863. Chaplain 
Clarke resigned on account of sick- 
ness Aug. 19, 1863, upon advice of 
Chief Surgeon Derby, Department 
of North Carolina, and was mus- 
tered out on that date. Died Feb. 
12, 1894. 

1839. John Henry Allen, D.M.C.: 
Served as surgeon of the Eighteenth 
Iowa Volunteers. Commissioned 
Aug. 8, 1862, and mustered out 
March 22, 1864. 

This regiment was assigned to the 
Army of the Frontier, and served 
under Generals Schofield, McNeil, 
and Steele in Missouri and Arkan- 
sas in the severe campaigns of that 
army. 

1840. Frederick Smith Ains- 
•worth: Was commissioned surgeon 
of the Twenty-second Regiment 
Massachusetts Volunteers on the 
25th day of June, 1862; promoted 
to surgeon of United States Volun- 
teers, 7th of November, 1862; mus- 
tered out of service July 27, 1865, 
with rank of lieutenant-colonel by 
brevet. Surgeon Ainsworth joined 
the regiment at Harrison's Landing 
July 11. 1862, while the Army of the 
Potomac was lying there, after the 
Seven Days' Battle, and remained 
with it during the Antietam cam- 
paign, until just before the battle 
of Fredericksburg, under General 
Burnside, when he was promoted 
as above. Died Oct. 5, 1878. 



1840. Sylvanus Bunton: Was ap- 
pointed second assistant surgeon 
Second Regiment New Hampshire 
Volunteers July 29, 1862. Mus- 
tered out June 21, 1864. Ap- 
pointed second assistant surgeon 
Seventh Regiment New Hampshire 
Volunteers June 24, 1864. Pro- 
moted to surgeon Aug. 24, 1864. 
Mustered out July 20, 1865. 

On his way to the field he was de- 
tained in Washington by order of 
the surgeon-general, and was as- 
signed to duty at the Mount Pleas- 
ant Hospital, in that city, where he 
remained till December, 1861, Avhen 
he joined his regiment, with which 
he did continuous service until its 
three years' term expired, when he 
was mustered out as above. 

For several weeks after the de- 
cisive battle of Gettysburg, he was 
detached for special hospital duty 
at that place. In August, 1863, he 
was made surgeon-in-ehief of the 
Medical Department of the Confed- 
erate Prisoners' Depot at Point 
Lookout, Md., and later on was 
placed in charge of the Smallpox 
Hospital at that place. 

Immediately upon his discharge 
from the Second New Hampshire, 
he was appointed assistant surgeon 
of the Seventh New Hampshire, and 
participated in all the subsequent 
service of that regiment until mus- 
tered out. Died Aug. 13, 1884, at 
Mt. Vernon, N. H. 

1840. Charles Foster: Enlisted at 
Davenport, la., May 7, 1861, as 
a private Eleventh Iowa Volun- 
teers. Was promoted to captain of 
Company B, same regiment. Oct. 
1. 1861. Was in the battles of 
Pittsburg Landing, Corinth, and 
Shiloh, and was wounded in the 
arm at Shiloh April 6, 1862: served 
also in the siege of Vicksburg. 
After the fall of Vicksburg was 
detailed on court-martial by Gren- 
eral INIcPherson. March, 1864. re- 
enlisted with his regiment. Went 
with his regiment in the march of 
Sherman to Atlanta, in 1864. Was 



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in active service in all the battles 
of this campaign till he was mor- 
tally wounded before Atlanta July 
22, 1864, being shot through the 
hips, a Minie ball passing entirely 
through his body. He was in the 
oflicers' hospital at Louisville for 
nearly a month. He started for his 
home in Davenport, but died at Cin- 
cinnati Aug. 24, 1864. 

1840. Elihu Thayer Rowe: Was 
mustered in as chaplain of the 
Fourteenth New Hampshire Volun- 
teers Oct. 3, 1862, and resigned 
July 20, 1863. During Chaplain 
Rowe's connection with the regi- 
ment it was engaged in doing guard 
duty in and around Washington 
and defending the Potomac against 
guerilla invasions. Died March 21, 
1867, at Auburndale, Mass. 

1840. Thomas Hamilton Cochran, 
D.M.C. : Was commissioned acting 
assistant surgeon U. S. Army in 
October, 1862, and served until May, 
1863, in military hospitals at Louis- 
ville, Ky. Died Nov. 12, 1882, at 
West Rutland, Vt. 

1840. rrederick Hasen Petit, 
D.M.C: W^as commissioned first as- 
sistant surgeon One Hundred and 
Sixth New York Volunteers, and 
went to the field with the regiment 
Aug. 8, 1862; was a very skilful 
surgeon, always performing his 
duty with fidelity and satisfaction 
to his superior officers ; was severely 
wounded in December, 1863, taken 
to a hospital in Washington, D. C, 
and died there Dec. 25, 1864. 

1841. Orel Cook: Was appointed 
an acting surgeon in 1861, and 
served in the hospitals in the West- 
ern Department, being on duty at 
Lebanon and Louisville, Ky. Died 
April 8, 1884, at Mendon, Vt. 

1841. Thomas Russell Crosby: 
Was examined at Washington for, 
and commissioned to the rank of, 
surgeon of volunteers, Sept. 11, 
1862, and was immediately assigned 
to charge of Columbia Hospital, one 
of the largest of the national hospi- 
tals, and remained on duty there 



until after the close of the Avar. He 
was brevetted lieutenant-colonel for 
distinguished services, to date June 
1, 1865, and was mustered out July 
27, 1865. Died March 1, 1872, at 
Hanover, N. H. 

1841. Samuel Flagg: Entered the 
L'nited States service from Worces- 
ter, Mass., Oct. 3, 1861, as hospital 
steward of the Twenty-lifth Regi- 
ment Massachusetts Volunteers, 
which was attached to General 
Burnside's North Carolina expedi- 
tion. In the spring of 1862 he was 
promoted to assistant surgeon of 
the same regiment, and was de- 
tailed to take charge of the general 
hospital at Newbern, N. C. The 
following summer lie had charge of 
a battery in the Third New York 
Light Artillery, commanded by Col. 
J. H. Ledlie. The following winter 
and spring of 1863 he was post 
surgeon at Plymouth, N. C. In 
August, 1863, he left the service on 
account of chills and fever. The 
following winter he was appointed 
contract surgeon, and assigned to 
duty on Long Island, Boston Har- 
bor; afterwards transferred to Gal- 
lop's Island, where he remained till 
the close of the war. He was in 
the battles of Roanoke, Elizabeth 
City, Newbern, Kinston, and Golds- 
boro. 

1841. Daniel Foster: Was com- 
missioned chaplain of the Thirty- 
third Massachusetts Regiment Aug. 
13, 1862. Was at the battle 
of Antietam in September, 1862, 
and Fredericksburg in December, 
1862. At the battle of Chancel lors- 
ville, in May, 1863, he served in the 
ranks with a musket, and was af- 
terwards called the " fighting chap- 
lain." Nov. 16, 1863, he was trans- 
ferred to the Thirty-seventh United 
States Colored Volunteers with the 
rank of captain. He led his com- 
pany in the campaign which in- 
cluded the Wilderness, Spottsyl- 
vania Court House, North Anna, 
Cold Harbor, siege of Petersburg 
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killed at Chapin's Farm Sept. 30, 
1864, at the head of his regiment, 
while repelling an assault of the 
enemy. 

1841. Henry Clay Long: Enlisted 
in the Mexican War, 1846; joined 
the First Regiment Kentucky Vol- 
unteers; was captain under General 
Taylor, in Mexico, from 1847 to 
1848; was afterwards assistant en- 
gineer from 1857 to 1861 ; then 
served upon the staff of General 
Fremont, in Missouri, November, 
1861; was next employed upon fron- 
tier fortifications, and left the ser- 
vice at Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 1, 1863. 
Died, 1S71. 

1841. Henry Elijah Parker: 
Was commissioned chaplain of the 
Second Regiment New Hampshire 
Volunteers June 10, 1861, and re- 
signed July 16, 1862. Chaplain 
Parker was closely and continually 
associated with the regiment all of 
the time of his service. Tlie men of 
the regiment always had a very 
friendly and kindly feeling for him. 
He was in the battles of First Bull 
Run and Williamsburg, and others 
in which the regiment was engaged. 
He always succored the wounded 
without heeding whether he was 
under fire or not. Colonel Fiske of 
the same regiment says: "His 
preaching in camp was always 
largely attended. He was looked 
upon by the men as their guide, 
philosopher, and friend under all 
circumstances, and he desired that 
they should so look upon him. In 
my opinion he Avas a chaplain who 
might serve as a model for all chap- 
lains of volunteer regiments." 
General Patterson, who was for a 
time colonel of the Second, says, 
" While Chaplain Parker was with 
the command he received the re- 
spect and love of every ofTicer and 
soldier in the regiment." Died 
Nov. 7, 1896. 

1841. Benjamin Hanaford Pear- 
son: Enlisted Oct. 13, 1861, in the 
Eleventh Regiment Illinois Volun- 
teers, and was appointed its chap- 



lain; resigned Jan. 18, 1863. He 
was with the regiment in the bat- 
tles of Fort Donelson and Shiloli. 
Died, 1873. 
1841. Ira Russell: Entered the 
army in 1861 as surgeon of the 
Eleventh Regiment Massachusetts 
Volunteers. Was afterwards pro- 
moted to surgeon of United States 
Volunteers. While in the service he 
organized the Stewart INIansion Hos- 
pital in Baltimore. In 1862 he 
was ordered to St. Louis to equip 
the Lawson Hospital. In December, 
1862, he was appointed medical 
director of Northwest Arkansas. In 

1863 he was put in charge of the 
hospital at Benton Barracks, St. 
Louis, Mo., which became one of the 
largest hospitals in Missouri. In 

1864 he organized the Wilson Gen- 
eral Hospital for colored troops at 
Nashville, Tenn. At the close of 
the war he was brevetted lieutenant- 
colonel, and served also, after he 
was mustered out, for a year with 
the United States Sanitary Commis- 
sion. Died Dec. 19, 1888, at Win- 
chendon, Mass. 

1841. John Webster: Served as a 
hospital steward in some New York 
regiment. Died, 1888. 

Also said to have been surgeon 
New York Volunteers. New York 
military records should tell. 

1841. Thomas Sanborn, D.M.C. : 
Was commissioned surgeon Six- 
teenth Regiment New Hampshire 
Volunteers Nov. 4, 1862; mustered 
in Nov. 10, 1862; resigned June 13, 
1863; served in the Department of 
the Gulf under General Banks. 
Died at Newport, N. H., July 23, 
1875. 

1841. Calvin Skinner, D.M.C: 
Was appointed in the spring of 
1862, by Governor Morgan of New 
York, in an auxiliary corps of vol- 
unteer surgeons, to serve without 
compensation ; was ordered to re- 
port at Fort Monroe. Va., and so 
reported May 1, 1862, remaining 
with the Army of the Potomac 
through the Peninsular campaign, 



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participating in all the battles con- 
nected therewith ; namely : York- 
town, Williamsburg, and Fair Oaks; 
was prostrated soon after return- 
ing from the field in June by a 
severe illness from which he had 
hardly recovered before he was ap- 
pointed surgeon of the One Hundred 
and Sixth New York Volunteers, 
and left for the field with the regi- 
ment in August, 1862. The regi- 
ment did service in the Department 
of West Virginia, until July, 1863, 
Avhen it was ordered to join the 
Army of the Potomac, and it par- 
ticipated in all the battles of that 
army during the remainder of the 
war. In January, 1864, Surgeon 
Skinner resigned on account of ill 
health. Died August, 1903. 

1842. Ranslure Weld Clarke: 
Was commissioned, June 1, 1862, 
by President Lincoln as assistant 
quartermaster U. S. Army, with 
the rank of captain, and served con- 
tinuously till Oct. 26, 1865, when 
he was mustered out of service. 
During the first tliree years of his 
service, he was in the Military De- 
partment of the East ; during the 
remainder of his service in the De- 
partment of the South. During all 
the time of service he was responsi- 
ble for a large amount of military 
stores. Died Jan. 15, 1899. 

1842. Benjamin Newton Com- 
ings: Was commissioned assist- 
ant surgeon Thirteenth Connecti- 
cut Volunteers Nov. 6, 1861, and 
was ordered to Louisiana. By or- 
der of Gen. B. F. Butler he was 
given charge of the First Division, 
Hospital Corps. Owing to ill 
health he resigned Jan. 26, 1863. 
Died Dec. 4, 1899, at New Britain, 
Conn. 

1842. Harrison Carroll Hobart: 
In April, 1861, he raised a company 
of one hundred men in Chilton, 
Wis., in response to President Lin- 
coln's call for 75,000 men. He was 
elected captain by the company, com- 
missioned by the governor April 
23, assigned to the Fourth Wiscon- 



sin Eegiment of Infantry, and left 
the State July 5 for Alaryland. In 
the fall of 1861 was in the expedi- 
tion to the eastern shore of Mary- 
land, which drove the rebel forces 
across the bay into Virginia. On 
returning to Baltimore, Captain 
Hobart was assigned to duty as 
judge advocate of court-martial, 
held at that city for the trial of 
officers, by order of General Mc- 
Clellan. In March, 1862, was as- 
signed to duty in the Army of the 
Gulf, and embarked for Ship Is- 
land. He was at the capture of 
New Orleans, siege of Vicksburg, 
burning of Grand Gulf, and battle 
of Baton Rouge. Was soon after 
promoted to lieutenant-colonel of 
the Twenty-first Wisconsin Infantry 
and relieved from duty in the Army 
of the Gulf, to take command of 
that regiment, which was then in 
the Army of the Cumberland, and 
operating in Kentucky, under Gen. 
George H. Thomas. He was with 
that army in the march through 
Kentucky into Tennessee, and in 
the battle of Stone River. He was 
also in the battle of Hoover's Gap, 
and with the advance upon Tulla- 
homa. Sept. 11, 1863. crossed the 
Tennessee River, and encountered 
the enemy at Dug Gap. September 
19 and 20 was in the battle of 
Chickamauga. Taken prisoner of 
war, and sent to Libby Prison, in 
Richmond, Va., Feb. 9, 1864. He 
made a successful escape with 108 
other officers, by a tunnel con- 
structed imder the street from the 
basement cellar of the prison. The 
escaping party issued from the tun- 
nel in groups of two, and Colonel 
Hobart came out in company with 
Col. Theodore S. West. Being very 
pale from long confinement, he 
conceived the idea of feigning to be 
ill with consumption, so as to ex- 
cite the commiseration of any par- 
ties who might discover him. He 
and his companion, West, marched 
by night, and lay in swamps and 
jungles by day. They crossed rivers 



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15 



and streams, often retracing their 
steps, and mailing long detours to 
avoid the rebel cavalry, which was 
scouring the country in all direc- 
tions in pursuit. Their pursuers 
were often in sight. Bloodhounds 
were seen by them on their track, 
and once only prevented them from 
running them down by fording a 
narrow stream, thereby throwing 
them off their scent. Their only 
guides in their efforts to escape 
were the north star and one of Mc- 
Clellan's war maps of Virginia, 
which Hobart had copied while in 
prison. Thus they worked their 
way through the enemy's country 
for five days and six nights; receiv- 
ing no aid, nor daring to ask it 
from any white man during the 
weary march. A negro one night 
kindly risked his life to pilot them 
tlirough some rebel pickets ob- 
structing their way. On the sixth 
day, wearied, footsore, and hungry, 
they reached the federal outposts, 
and were challenged by some Penn- 
sylvania scouts. They answered by 
three cheers, which showed that 
the medicinal virtues of the piny 
swamps of Virginia had wrought 
a marvellous cure of the severe pul- 
monary attack under which Colonel 
Hobart was laboring when he left 
Richmond. On returning to his 
regiment he was promoted to the 
rank of colonel. In Sherman's ad- 
vance to Atlanta he participated 
in the battles of Buzzard's Roost, 
Resaca, Dallas, New Hope Church, 
Kenesaw Mountain, Marietta, Chat- 
tahoochie, Peach Tree Creek, and 
Atlanta. After the downfall of At- 
lanta Colonel Hobart was assigned 
to the First Brigade, First Divi- 
sion, Fourteenth Army Corps. In 
Sherman's march to the sea, on the 
capture of Savannah, he was brev- 
etted for meritorious service, on the 
recommendation of General Sher- 
man, and soon after appointed to the 
rank of brigadier-general by Presi- 
dent Lincoln, which appointment 
was confirmed by the senate. He 



was in command of the brigade in 
the march through the Carol inas, 
and the battles of Averysboro, 
Bentonville, and the capture of 
Raleigh. His command partici- 
pated in the grand review at Wash- 
ington, which closed the war. Gen- 
eral Hobart was mustered out very 
soon thereafter, after four years of 
service. Died at Milwaukee, Wis., 
Jan. 26, 1902. 

1842. Royal Parkinson: While 
serving in the Christian Commission 
in connection with negro troops, 
Mr. Parkinson was appointed chap- 
lain of the Twenty-tlurd Regiment 
United States Colored Troops in No- 
vember, 1804. He resigned his pas- 
torate at Randolph, Vt., and joined 
the regiment December 5, it being 
stationed at Bermuda Hundred, Va. 
Was mustered in December 16, at 
General Butler's headquarters. De- 
cember 31 his regiment broke camp, 
and marched to the north side of 
the James. Chaplain Parkinson oc- 
cupied much of his time in teaching 
tlie soldiers arithmetic, geography, 
chronologj', and history. Just be- 
fore the close of the war he was 
sent under orders to Washington. 
His regiment, the Twenty-third 
United States Colored Troops, was 
among the very first to enter Rich- 
mond. Near the last of May, 1805, 
the regiment was ordered to Texas, 
and Chaplain Parkinson resigned 
his commission, and was mustered 
out of the service. Died Dec. 22, 
1882. 

1842. Samuel Souther: Enlisted 
Nov. 25, 1803, at Worcester, Mass., 
in Company B, Fifty-seventh Regi- 
ment IMassachusetts Volunteers, 
commanded by Col. Wm. F. Bart- 
lett. Mustered into service Jan. 
4, 1864, as first sergeant; was killed 
in the Battle of the W^ilderness, 
May 6, 1864. 

1842. Samuel Jones Spalding: 
Mr. Spalding was granted leave of 
absence by his church, and ap- 
pointed chaplain of the Forty- 
eighth Regiment Massachusetts 



16 



DARTMOUTH EOLL OF HONOE 



Volunteers; mustered into the ser- 
vice Dec. 29, 1802, serving till Aug. 
30, 1803, the expiration of the term 
of service of the regiment. He 
served with his regiment in the 
First Brigade, First Division, Army 
of the Gulf, commanded by Maj.- 
Gen. C, C. Augur. The regiment 
was at the battle of Plains Store, 
La., May 21, 1803, and the siege of 
Port Hudson, being actively en- 
gaged in the first and second as- 
saults on that stronghold May 27, 
and June 10; also in the fight at 
Donaldsonville June 13. Died April 
10, 1892. 
1842. Jabez Baxter Upham: 
Entered United States service 
March 3, 1802, at the call of Gen- 
eral Burnside for volunteer sur- 
geons; after the battle of Roanoke 
Island he served in the capacity of 
acting assistant surgeon U. S. 
Army; after the battle of Newbern, 
was detailed to organize the " Acad- 
emy Green " Hospital at Newbern, 
N. C., where he remained as 
surgeon in charge until the arri- 
val of Dr. Derby. He was then 
sent by General Foster to organ- 
ize a hospital at Beaufort, N. C. ; 
received the title brigade surgeon 
from General Foster, with the 
rank of major; was ordered to 
establish the department hospital, 
under the name of " Stanley General 
Hospital," at Newbern, N. C, and 
continued in charge of the same 
during the remainder of his term of 
service, ending April, 1803. 

Note — The " Stanley General 
Hospital " was the largest in the 
Department of North Carolina, 
comprising about six hundred beds. 
Dr. Upham's services were freely 
given to the government, and as 
such are left on record as a noble 
benefaction ; at first he offered his 
services only for six weeks, but on 
arriving at the front he found the 
field so large that he willingly de- 
cided to remain longer in the ser- 
vice, giving thirteen months of his 
time to this humane work. While 



faithful in the discharge of the du- 
ties of his office, he especially en- 
deared himself to Massachusetts by 
enclosing, at his own expense, the 
graves of her honored dead who 
were buried at Newbern, with a 
handsome and substantial fence. 
Died in New York City March 17, 
1902. 

1842. Abner Spicer Warner: Was 
mustered into the service at 
Weathersfield, Conn., as surgeon 
Sixteenth Connecticut Volunteers. 
Assigned to duty with the Ninth 
Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, 
July, 1802. Was in the battles of 
Antietam and Fredericksburg. Re- 
signed his commission in January, 
1803, on account of ill health. 

1842. Moses Hazen White: Was 
appointed hospital steward Twenty-, 
second Regiment Ohio Volunteers 
Nov. 25, 1801 ; was promoted to 
second lieutenant Company A Sept. 
10, 1802; first lieutenant Company 
C Jan. 10, 1804; mustered out with 
the company, at Camp Denison, 
Nov. 18, 1804. Died, 1878. 

1842. Otis Ayer, D.M.C.: Was 
commissioned assistant surgeon 
Second Regiment Minnesota Volun- 
teers in April, 1803, and remained 
with the regiment till the close of 
the battle of Chickamauga ; was in 
charge of a brigade hospital on that 
battlefield for twelve days, at the 
end of which time he accompanied 
the last ambulance load of the sick 
and wounded men under his care to 
Chattanooga, Tenn. On the battle- 
field he gave his parole to report 
at Atlanta, Ga., where he remained 
off duty till exchanged late in No- 
vember; resigned his commission 
Dec. 23, 1803; was afterwards 
offered the position of svirgeon of 
the Tenth Minnesota, but declined. 
Beside the battle of Chickamauga, 
Dr. Ayer was in several skirmishes 
and battles of less importance, such 
as Hoover's Gap, Tvillahoma, etc. 
Upon the breaking out of the Sioux 
Indians in August, 1802, Dr. Ayer 
volunteered with others for the de- 



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17 



fence of the settlements, and the 
band with which he was coiinet'ted 
was surrounded for twenty-four 
hours by 400 Indians, when they 
were relieved by re-enforcements. 
Died Jan. 27, 18S9. 

1842. Norman Cuxtis Stevens, 
D.M.C.: Was commissioned acting 
assistant surgeon at Washington, 
D. C, Sept. 1, 1862; from that date 
he was on duty at Harwood General 
Hospital in that city, till April 
23, 18(M, when he left the service. 
Died, 1871. 

1843. William Dickinson: Was 
appointed, Sept. 18, 1861, contract 
surgeon, and placed in charge of 
general hospital at Benton Bar- 
racks, St. Louis, Mo. Being sum- 
moned to Washington for medical 
examination, he was commissioned, 
April 2, 1862, brigade surgeon by 
President Lincoln ; a rank awarded 
to only one other surgeon from St. 
Louis. He remained in charge of 
the hospital at Benton Barracks till 
November, 1862, when he was or- 
dered to Rolla, Mo., in charge of the 
general hospital at that place, and 
as medical director of that mili- 
tary district. In 1863, being re- 
lieved from this position, he was 
ordered to join the command of 
Major-General Carr, then in the 
South. While at Memphis, Tenn., 
on his way thither, he received a 
telegraphic order from the sur- 
geon-general U. S. Army to re- 
turn to St. Louis, and there or- 
ganize and conduct the United 
States Eye and Ear Infirmary. In 
this position he remained till its 
discontinuance. In November, 1863, 
he was assigned to duty with the 
brigade of Brig.-Gen. Fitz Henry 
Warren, which was encamped at 
Houston, Mo. Here he spent the 
ensuing winter, meanwhile A-isit- 
ing the battlefield of Hartville, 
Mo., where he made permanent 
provision for the wounded. Early 
in 1864, the brigade being ordered 
elsewliere. Dr. Dickinson returned 
to St. Louis and performed special 



duty on different military boards 
till December, when, one week after 
the battle of Nashville, Tenn., he 
was ordered to duty in that city, 
when he was appointed general in- 
spector of the Negroes' Hospital in 
the vicinity, and so continued till 
Jan. 15, 1865, when he resigned his 
commission. In connection with 
the military history of Dr. Dickin- 
son it may not be out of place to 
allude to the fact that he belonged 
to a family memorable for the num- 
ber engaged in the war for the pres- 
ervation of the Union. His mother 
enjoyed the rare distinction of 
having contributed six sons, two 
grandsons, and five stepsons — 
thirteen in all — to the military 
service of the country, in the sev- 
eral grades of surgeons and pri- 
vates. Died Feb. 2, 1894. 
1843. Francis Skinner Fiske: 
W'hen President Lincoln issued his 
first call for troops in April, 1861, 
Mr. Fiske was living in Boston. 
When he read the call he imme- 
diately wrote to Governor Good- 
win, of New Hampshire, offering his 
services for the war, and suggest- 
ing that the governor send him au- 
thority to raise a battalion in 
Cheshire County. April 17, Secre- 
tary of State Tulloch, of New 
Hampshire, came to his office with 
this authority and a letter from 
Governor Goodwin, saying that he 
thought that Mr. Fiske was over- 
sanguine in his hopes of raising a 
battalion. Mr. Fiske went to 
Keene, N. H., that afternoon, the 
17th. On the 24th he wrote the 
governor that he was going to 
start that day for Portsmouth 
with two full companies, that two 
more companies were nearly full 
and would follow in two or three 
days, and that two companies had 
preceded him. ]\Tr. Fiske had then 
been commissioned lieutenant-col- 
onel of the Second Regiment, or- 
ganized as a three months' regi- 
ment, but before mustering, the call 
for three years came, and the entire 



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DAETMOUTH EOLL OF HONOE 



regiment, with a few individual 
exceptions, enlisted again. The 
regiment left Portsmouth June 20, 
and reached Washington June 21. 
Was engaged in the battle of Bull 
Run in Buruside's brigade, which 
saw some of the hardest lighting 
of the day. The colonel of the regi- 
ment was wounded the second time 
they went under fire, after which 
the lieutenant-colonel was in com- 
mand of the regiment. The regi- 
ment maintained its position per- 
fectly during the whole of the bat- 
tle, and left the field in as good or- 
der as it entered it, drawing off all 
of its equipage except the ambu- 
lance. Colonel Fiske remained in 
command of the regiment till Colo- 
nel Marston returned in November, 
when they were on duty in Lower 
Maryland. Just before Colonel 
Marston returned. General Hooker 
sent Colonel Fiske down the Poto- 
mac with some cavalry and artil- 
lery to maintain order during the 
election. On leaving, the inhabit- 
ants expressed their gratitude in 
many ways to the regiment for its 
conduct while there. From late in 
November until March, 18G2, Colonel 
Fiske served on Di\ision Court- 
Martial. In the month of May he 
was ordered by General Hooker to 
take command of the Twenty-sixth 
Regiment of Pennsylvania Volun- 
teers, which was supposed to be in- 
subordinate. Colonel Fiske never 
had any trouble with the regiment, 
and believes that he had their good- 
will when he left them. He went 
with them to Yorktown, when tliey 
were first under fire, where he was 
stricken with the army fever, but 
kept in command up to the battle 
of Williamsburg. Early in the 
battle, General Hooker, with whom 
he was riding, sent an assistant 
surgeon to take him from the field 
and place him in the rear until he 
could be taken care of, and this was 
the last of his active service. He 
lay at the point of death for some 
time, but finally recovered, and re- 



signed in November, 1862. While 
in the service he was ofl'ered the 
colonelcy of both the Third and 
Fourth New Hampshire Regiments, 
but preferred to remain \\ith the 
old Second. He was also told by 
General Hooker that Governor Cur- 
tin, of Pennsylvania, offered to 
make him colonel of the Twenty- 
sixth Pennsylvania Regiment. For 
gallant and meritorious service he 
was brevetted colonel and after- 
wards brigadier-general. 

1843. Ezra White Gale: While 
teaching in Erie, Pa., was drafted 
into the army. Served four montlis 
only, and was discharged on ac- 
count of disability. Died March 
1.3, 1891. 

1843. Joshua James Guppey: 
W'as commissioned, Sept. 13, 1861, 
lieutenant-colonel of the Tenth 
Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer In- 
fantry, and served under Cien. 0. M. 
Mitchell in all of his campaigns in 
1861, in Kentucky, Tennessee, and 
Alabama. July 17, 1862, he was 
promot<^d to colonel of the Twenty- 
third Regiment Wisconsin Infan- 
try, and was with it. in actual com- 
mand, in the first assault on Vicks- 
burg, in December, 1862, under 
General Sherman; also in the as- 
sault and capture of Post Arkansas, 
Jan. 11, 1863, and at the battles 
of Grand Gulf, Fort Gibson, Cham- 
pion Hill, and Black River Bridge. 
In all of these battles his regiment 
behaved with distinguished bravery, 
and the official report of the cap- 
ture of Post Arkansas states that 
a part of tlie rebel right was driven 
in by a charge of the Twenty-third 
Wisconsin, under Colonel Guppey. 
He was also in command of his 
regiment in the assault on Vicks- 
burg in May, 1863, and in the 
siege and operations which resulted 
in the capture of that stronghold 
July 4, 1863. Soon after this his 
regiment, which avps a part of the 
Thirteenth Army Corps, was trans- 
ferred to the Department of the 
Gulf. In November, 1863, the four 



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19 



divisions of the Thirteenth Army 
Corps, commanded by General Bur- 
bridge, were attacked by an over- 
wlielming force at Carrion Crow, 
near Opelousas, La., and the battle 
of Grand Coteau occurred. In this 
battle the Twenty-third Wisconsin, 
commanded by Colonel Guppey, 
was held in reserve. " When its 
turn came to take the brunt of the 
battle," says the Cincinnati Commer- 
cial, " this excellent regiment, ani- 
mated by its brave colonel, held the 
enemy in check for a short time, 
delivering its fire with deadly 
effect." Here Colonel Guppey was 
wounded just below the knee of the 
left leg, and subsequently taken 
prisoner. The Twenty-third, how- 
ever, had to give way; the odds 
were too great for human effort to 
overcome. The colonel commanded 
his men for some time after he was 
shot. He was exchanged in Janu- 
ary, 18G4, and was soon after de- 
tailed by General Banks as presi- 
dent of a military commission for 
the examination of officers in the 
Thirteenth Army Corps, and con- 
tinued on that duty until he was so 
far recovered from his wounds as to 
be fit for service in the field. In the 
summer of 1864 Colonel Guppey 
was transferred to the Nineteenth 
Army Corps with his regiment. He 
was assigned to the Third Brigade, 
Second Division, of that corps, and 
was in active service till the close 
of the war all the way from Mobile, 
Ala., to Paducah, Ky., and was 
post commander at the place last 
named when the war was substan- 
tially ended. His command formed 
a part of General Granger's army, 
sent to aid Admiral Farragvit in his 
assaults on Forts INIorgan and 
Gaines, which were surrendered 
Aug. 24, 1864. On the following 
day Colonel Guppey in command of 
the Sixth Regiment of Infantry, a 
battery of artillery, and a company 
of cavalry, was sent by boat to 
Cedar Point, situated on the main- 
land fifteen miles from the cap- 



tured forts, to raid a rebel work 
constructed there. The landing 
was difficult, as the rebels had de- 
stroyed the piers leading to deep 
water, but was effected without ac- 
cident or loss. On the 3d of Oc- 
tober, 1804, Colonel Guppey, with 
a third of his regiment, was sent 
from Morganza across to Bayou 
Sara with orders to march towards 
Johnson, La., as a feint to draw 
rebel troops from Clinton, whieli 
was to be attacked from another 
point in the river, and hold the 
forces gathered against liim figlit- 
ing at long range till the other ex- 
pedition had been given time to raid 
the place which it was to attack; 
and then Colonel Guppey was to re- 
turn to the river. Both expeditions 
were successful. During the fall of 
1804 Colonel Guppey's command 
was on duty in forts and military 
posts along the Mississippi River 
as far north as Paducah, where he 
was made post commander, and 
had, at times, 4000 men vmder his 
command. Soon after General 
Thomas had annihilated Hood's 
army, Colonel Guppey's brigade 
was returned to the Department of 
the Gulf, but Colonel Guppey him- 
self was retained by General 
Thomas as post commander at Pa- 
ducah till the war was over. 
On the 15th of June, 1865, Colonel 
Guppey was commissioned briga- 
dier-general of volunteers by brevet, 
for gallant and meritorious ser- 
vices during the war. His regiment 
was mustered out of service July 4, 
1865. Died Dec. 8, 1893. 
1843. Lewis Davis Harlow: Was 
appointed acting assistant surgeon 
U. S. Army June, 1862: assistant 
surgeon United States Volunteers 
Nov. 7, 1802; and surgeon United 
State Volunteers May 8, 1863; 
brcvetted lioutenant-colonel Aug. 
10, 1865, for faithful and meritori- 
ous service. Was appointed sur- 
geon in cliarge of L^. S. Army Hos- 
pital, 4 Church St., Philadelphia, 
from June, 1802, to March, 1863; 



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DAETMOUTH EOLL OF HONOE 



Hospital No. 3, at Nashville, Tenn., 
from April, 1803, to December, 
1803; Otiicers' Hospital of Chatta- 
nooga and Lookout Mountain, 
Tenn., from January, 1804, to June, 
1805; medical director on the stall' 
of Maj.-G}€n. Charles Crufts, at 
Greenville, Tenn., from June to 
Aug. 10, 1865, at which time he 
was mustered out of service. While 
in the service he reported a number 
of interesting medical and surgical 
cases to the surgeon-general's office. 
Died June 23, 1895. 

1843. William Aaron Patten: 
Was appointed chaplain of the 
Thirty-second Maine Regiment in 
April, 1864, and was mustered out 
Dec. 12, 1864. The regiment left 
Maine the 1st of May, 1864, and 
joined the Ninth Corps, Army of 
the Potomac, during the Battle of 
the Wilderness. The regiment had 
a full quota of over 1000 men when 
it left the State, and on the 1st of 
July, 1804, had suffered from the 
casualties of war to such an extent 
that it did not number more than 
a third of the full quota. 

1843. Jonathan Smith Boss: 
Was commissioned surgeon of the 
Eleventh Regiment New Hamp- 
shire Volunteers Aug. 14, 1862, and 
followed the fortunes of the regi- 
ment and brigade to which it be- 
longed until Dee. 7, 1864, when he 
was discharged from the service by 
reason of disability. During a 
larger part of the campaign in front 
of Petersburg he was surgeon of the 
brigade, and at times had charge 
of brigade and division hospitals, 
and later was assigned to duty at 
Concord, N. H. He was considered 
one of the most skilful amputating 
surgeons in the Ninth Army Corps. 
The Eleventh Regiment was at- 
tached to the above corps during 
the entire period of its enlistment. 
It was at first connected with the 
Army of the Potomac, and received 
its baptism of blood at Fredericks- 
burg. In March, 1863, it was 
ordered West, and was at Vicks- 



burg, and afterwards at Knoxville, 
Tenn. 

The corps returned to the Army 
of the Potomac in April, 1804, 
and participated in General Grant's 
Richmond campaign, and was in 
front of Petersburg from June until 
its capture in April, 1865. Died 
at Somersworth, N. H., Nov. 22, 
1877. 

1843. John Waterman Harris 
Baker, D.M.C. : Served as acting 
assistant surgeon U. S. Army in 
1804-1805. 

1843. Moses Evans, D.M.C: 
Was appointed assistant surgeon of 
the Ninety-sixth Illinois Infantry 
at its organization in July, 1802, 
and was with the regiment on the 
march, in the camp, and in the 
trenches. His services at Kenesaw 
Mountain in caring for the wounded 
were of a character to call for spe- 
cial mention in the reports of the 
battle. After the battle of Chicka- 
niauga, where he made almost su- 
perhuman efforts in caring for the 
unfortunate, he was sent to Steven- 
son, Ala., in charge of an ambu- 
lance train of wounded. The route 
lay along the Tennessee River at one 
point, and in passing an exposed 
position the train was fired upon 
and the surgeon was wounded in the 
leg. After the battle of Jonesboro 
he was placed in charge of an ambu- 
lance train of wounded and sent to 
Atlanta. He was mustered out 
with the regiment June 28, 1865. at 
Camp Douglas, Chicago, 111. Died, 
1898. 

1843. Otis Kussell Freeman, 
D.]\I.C. : Was commissioned sur- 
geon Tenth Regiment New Jersey 
Volunteers April 14, 1862; was 
stationed at Washington, D. C, 
until April, 1803, then ordered to 
Suffolk, Va., by the regiment at- 
tached to Corcoran's brigade. Dur- 
ing the enforcement of the draft the 
regiment Avas on duty in Philadel- 
phia, where Dr. Freeman served as 
chief medical officer. During the 
Antietam campaign was under the 



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21 



orders of General Geary, as surgeon- 
in-chief of the brigade. From De- 
cember, 1863, to March, 1804, had 
charge of the surgeons stationed in 
the coal regions of Pennsylvania. 
In March, 1864, was remustered as 
a veteran and sent to the front, 
where he was assigned to the First 
Brigade, First Division, Sixth Army 
Corps, and was continuously serv- 
ing in the field hospital and the am- 
bulance corps from the battles of 
the Wilderness to the front of 
Petersburg in the summer of 1864. 
About July 1 of that year was made 
chief medical officer First Brigade, 
First Division, Sixth Army Corps. 
Soon after was ordered to Washing- 
ton and the Shenandoah Val- 
ley, and was present at all the bat- 
tles under General Sheridan until 
December, 1864, then ordered to the 
front at Petersburg, and was on 
duty there until the surrender of 
General Lee. Mustered out of ser- 
vice July 1, 1865. 

1843. Non-Grad. Lemuel Bick- 
ford Mason: Was chaplain of the 
Twelfth Regiment Wisconsin Vol- 
unteers. Commissioned Nov. 1, 
1861. Resigned Aug. 14, 186.3. 
The regiment had severe service in 
Kansas and Missouri. Was as- 
signed to Gen. O. M. Mitchell's 
brigade ; participated in the cam- 
paigns of Corinth, Holly Springs, 
Vicksburg, and Jackson, as a por- 
tion of the Army of the Tennessee 
under General Grant. 

1844. Joseph Mills Bell: Left a 
large legal practice to go with Gen. 
B. F. Butler as a personal aid on 
his staff when the latter went South 
with his New England Division in 
February, 1862. In General Butler's 
" Autobiography " he pays the 
highest tributes to Major Bell's ser- 
vices while a member of his staff, 
referring to a specially hazardous 
duty when the fleet forming the ex- 
pedition came near being destroyed 
in a storm on Frying Pan Shoals, 
off the North Carolina coast. After 
the passage of the confiscation act 



by congress. Major Bell was ap- 
pointed one of a commission of 
three to take possession of all the 
sequestered property in the Dis- 
trict of La Fourche, La. The labor 
and responsibilities connected with 
the duties of this position were very 
great, and were performed to the 
entire satisfaction of the command- 
ing general, as well as the citizens. 
In the latter part of 1862 Major 
Bell was appointed by Grcneral But- 
ler provost judge of New Orleans. 
General Butler says of him in this 
connection : ■" Very able, fair-mind- 
ed, clear-headed and of great 
legal knowledge was he, and of so 
great merit that when I was re- 
lieved and he went home with me, 
the Bar of New Orleans presented 
to him a valuable gift in compli- 
ment and recognition of his ser- 
vices to them as a jurist." Nov. 7, 

1863, he was appointed by Presi- 
dent Lincoln major and assistant 
adjutant-general of volunteers, and 
resigned, on account of ill health, 
Jan. 18, 1865. Died Sept. 10, 
1868. 

1844. Edward Warren Clark: 
Was appointed chajilain of the 
Forty-seventh Massachusetts Vol- 
unteer Militia at Newton, Mass., 
March 25, 1863. The regiment was 
commanded by Colonel Marsh, and 
served in the defences of New Or- 
leans. The regiment was in no bat- 
tles, and Chaplain Clark was mus- 
tered out Sept. 23, 1863, upon expi- 
ration of term of service. Died, 
1903. 

1844. Joseph William Drew: Was 
appointed from Oregon additional 
paymaster United States Volun- 
teers, with rank of major, Feb. 23, 

1864, and mustered out of service 
Feb. 1, 1869. Died April 25. 1883. 

1844. Charles Haddock: W'as ap- 
pointed surgeon of tlie Eighth 
Massachusetts Regiment Oct. 22, 
1862. Detached from the regiment 
on arrival at Newbern, N. C. In 
November was ordered to Stanley 
General Hospital, in Newbern, 



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N. C. In April, 1863, he was or- 
dered to Fort Macon, at the re- 
quest of General Sprague, com- 
manding said fort, who was ex- 
pecting an attack. He remained 
there till June 2, 1863, when he was 
ordered to collect all the sick and 
wounded in the Massachusetts regi- 
ments, and return with them to 
Boston, to report to Commander 
Dyer ; and was mustered out of ser- 
vice July 18, 1863. He was after- 
wards appointed by Surgeon-Gen- 
eral Barnes, of the U. S. Army, to 
Forts Townsend and Lee, Salem 
Harbor, where he rendered service 
for six months. Died Oct. 10, 1889. 

1844. Samuel Green Sewall: En- 
listed in the Eleventh Regiment 
Maine Volunteers, in 1861, as 
second lieutenant Company F; 
promoted to the rank of captain 
and detailed as assistant adjutant- 
general, on the staff of General 
Emory, and afterwards of General 
H. F. Naglee. At the expiration of 
his first term of service he re-en- 
listed in the Fourth United States 
Volunteers ; was afterwards sta- 
tioned in command of Fort Thom- 
son, Dakota Ter. He was in the 
service five years. 

1844. Seth Tracy Thacher: His 
work in the War of the Rebellion 
was for the greater part of the time 
as Christian counsellor and teacher. 
In the summer of 1863, during the 
first draft, he served as clerk in 
the provost marshal's office in 
Salem, and was called to the same 
service in the second draft, in the 
summer of 1864. Went into the 
service of the Christian Commission 
in Xew Orleans early in September, 
1864, and was stationed at Brashear 
City, eighty miles from New Or- 
leans, where he spent his time 
among soldiers, rebels, and freed- 
men till the following May. Dur- 
ing this time he was elected chap- 
lain of the Ninety-third United 
States Colored Infantry; but, ow- 
ing to an act of congress which 
necessitated a larger number of en- 



listed men in order to have a chap- 
lain, he was never mustered into the 
United States service. Served 
afterwards on the Board of Educa- 
tion as superintendent of freedmen's 
schools. Mr. Tliacher was on duty 
in New Orleans in connection with 
the Freedmen's Bureau, when the 
news of President Lincoln's assassi- 
nation reached him. 

1844. Jonathan Strong Curtis, 
D.M.C.: Was commissioned sur- 
geon of the Twenty-second Connecti- 
cut Volunteers Sept. 27, 1802, and 
served until Dec. 11, 1862. Died at 
Hartford, Conn., March 3, 1897. 

1844. Joseph Huntress, D.M.C.: 
Was appointed acting assistant sur- 
geon U. S. Army early in the war, 
but there is no definite information 
obtainable as to his service, 1861- 
1865. Died February, 1884. 

1844. John Ordway French, 
D.M.C. : Served as assistant sur- 
geon of Twenty-third United States 
Colored Infantry. Commissioned 
May 18, 1865, served with the 
Twenty-fifth Army Corps. Died 
March 26, 1887. 

1845. William Mellen Chamber- 
lain: Was appointed, in September, 
1861, brigade surgeon, and was as- 
signed to duty with General Fre- 
mont in the Department of Mis- 
souri. Pending his acceptance of 
this position he was invited by the 
United States Sanitary Commission 
to serve as inspector with the Army 
of the Potomac, then forming at 
Washington at the opening of the 
campaign. He was assigned to 
duty at the headquarters of G€neral 
McClellan, and accompanied him 
througli the campaign upon the 
Peninsula and the Seven Days' Bat- 
tle before Richmond. Was then 
transferred to the Army of North- 
ern Virginia, joining it at the bat- 
tle of Cedar Mountain, and continu- 
ing with it through the series of 
battles called Second Bull Run, or 
Manassas, Chantilly, South Moun- 
tain, and Antietam. After the last 
battle, having been invalided by ex- 



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posure, he left the army, and re- 
ceived an appointment as examin- 
ing surgeon of the United States 
Pension Bureau for the City of New 
York. He was twice a prisoner in 
the hands of the enemy, and was 
once released by special order of 
General Lee, in consideration of the 
good work of the Sanitary Com- 
mission. Died Oct. 31, 1887. 

1845. Charles Augustine Davis: 
In 1853 was surgeon at Marine 
Hospital at Chelsea, Mass., where 
he continued for some time, becom- 
ing its superintendent; was com- 
missioned surgeon of the Thirty- 
second Regiment Massachusetts 
Volunteers in February, 18G2. He 
served in most of the Peninsular 
campaign, but was prostrated by 
fever, and went to Derby in the fall 
of 1862, and died April 9, 1863, 
deeply regretted as a distinguished 
ornament of his profession. 

1845. George Harrison Palmer: 
Enlisted at Chicago, 111., November, 
1864, as an ordinary seaman. Pro- 
moted afterwards to surgeon's 
steward and paymaster's steward. 
Mustered out in June, 1866. 

1845. Clarke Gilman Pease: Was 
commissioned surgeon Second Regi- 
ment Wisconsin Cavalry Nov. 16, 
1861 ; mustered into service Feb. 
6, 1862; was on detached service 
till Oct. 7, 1862, when he rejoined 
his regiment; died of disease on the 
27th of June, 1864. During Janu- 
ary and February, 1863, he served 
as brigade surgeon of the Third Bri- 
gade, District of Memphis. 

1845. David Sands Vittum: was 
commissioned captain of the Third 
Regiment Wisconsin Cavalry in 
Januarv, 1862. The regiment left 
the State for St. Louis March 20, 
1862. On the llth of May it re- 
ported for duty at Fort Leaven- 
worth. Colonel Barstow of the 
regiment was appointed provost- 
marshal-general of Kansas, and the 
regiment was distributed through- 
out the State; one battalion, in 
which was Captain Vittum's Com- 



pany (F), was stationed at Fort 
Scott, Kan., which was then the ex- 
treme outpost of the Union forces. 
The regiment was engaged during 
that summer in scouting and was in 
several minor engagements. All of 
this time they were under the com- 
mand of General Blunt. Dec. 7, 
1802, the regiment took part in the 
battle of Prairie Grove, Ark., and 
was also in the raid with Generals 
Blunt and Herron, over the Boston 
Mountains to Van Buren on the 
Arkansas River. After this raid 
they returned to Springfield, Mo., 
where they remained in camp for 
some time. During the summer of 
1803 they were constantly engaged 
in scouting and in encounters with 
the guerillas in Arkansas and the 
Indian Nation. In January, 1804, 
a portion of the regiment re-en- 
listed, and of the new organization 
Captain Vittum was made lieuten- 
ant-colonel. Died April 10, 1880. 

1845. William Cogswell, D.M.C. : 
surgeon Fiftieth Massachusetts 
Volunteers, with rank of major. 
Commissioned Nov. 11, 1802. 
Served in the Department of the 
Gulf, being assigned to Third Bri- 
gade, First Division, Nineteenth 
Army Corps. Engaged in the as- 
sault upon Port Hudson May 27, 
1862. Mustered out of service Aug. 
24, 1802, upon expiration of term 
of service. Died Aug. 15, 1891. 

1845. George Washington East- 
man, D.]\I.C. : Appointed surgeon 
of the Sixteenth Regiment Wiscon- 
sin Volunteers in 1861; served in 
the Army of the Tennessee. The 
regiment was a part of the Sixth 
Division, Seventeenth Army Corps, 
Army of the Tennessee. Dr. East- 
man served as brigade and division 
surgeon and acting medical inspec- 
tor of the Seventeentli Army Corps, 
and participated in tlie battles of 
Shiloh, luka, Corinth, Fort Gibson, 
Raymond, Champion Hills, Black 
River Bridge, Kenesaw ]Mountain, 
and Atlanta ; mustered oiit of service 
Nov. 30, 1864. Died Oct. 25, 1900. 



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1845. William Everett, D.M.C.: 
In 1862 was obliged to leave Mis- 
souri, where he was then residing, 
on account of his strong Union sen- 
timents, and, in 1863, was ap- 
pointed surgeon. Tenth Iowa, and 
served in the Army of the Tennessee 
in charge of hospitals at different 
points. His last duty was at JMem- 
phis, Tenn. Mustered out, upon ex- 
piration of term of service, Sept. 
15, 1864. Died Oct. 19, 1867. 

1845. Charles Carroll Tebbetts, 
D.M.C. : Surgeon of Seventh Regi- 
ment Missouri (State Volunteers) 
Cavalry Volunteers in the Civil 
War, and died May 19, 1863, while 
in service, at Greenfield, Mo. 

Regiment organized in 1862 to 
serve during the war in Missouri. 

1846. James Joshua Blaisdell: 
Entered the service May 11, 1864, 
from Beloit, Wis., as chaplain of 
the Fortieth Regiment Wisconsin 
Volunteer Infantry. He was in no 
battles save some skirmishes with 
Forrest in his raids on Memphis 
and the neighborhood. Mustered 
out Sept. 25, 1864, by reason of the 
expiration of his term of service. 
Died Oct. 10, 1896. 

1846. Alonzo Hall Quint: En- 
tered the service as chaplain of the 
Second Massachusetts Volunteers 
June 1, 1861, and was mustered in 
June 20, 1861; was with the regi- 
ment in most of the battles in 
which it was engaged, including 
those of Cedar Mountain, Antietam, 
Chancellorsville, and Pope's Vir- 
ginia campaign; was seriously ill 
from the disease contracted in the 
Chancellorsville campaign in 1863. 
He was mustered out upon the com- 
pletion of his term of service June 
1, 1864, during Sherman's Georgia 
campaign. The following is an ex- 
tract from Colonel Cogswell's re- 
port to the regiment: 

" It is not improper to speak of 
this officer as having always (and 
especially in time of action) been 
of the greatest value to the regi- 
ment. His energy and persever- 



ance were of the highest order." 
Died Nov. 4, 1896. Chaplain Quint 
was a regular contributor to the 
Congregationalist during his en- 
tire service. He published a volume 
of his letters entitled, '' From the 
Potomac to the Rapidan," also the 
historical " Record of the Second 
Massachusetts Volunteers, 1861- 
1865." 
1846. David Sylvester Fogg, 
D.M.C. : Was commissioned acting 
assistant surgeon U. S. Army in 
1861, and served for some time 
under General McClellan; after- 
wards was an examining surgeon 
and located at Concord, Mass., for 
three years. Died Aug. 30, 1893. 

1846. Seth Challis Hunkins, 
D.M.C : Was commissioned surgeon 
of the Fourth Maine Volunteers 
June 4, 1861; mustered out July 
19, 1864, by reason of expiration of 
term of service; was taken prisoner 
and parolled in 1861. Died, 1867. 

This regiment served its entire 
term in the Third Army Corps, 
Army of the Potomac. It was 
first commanded by Col. Hiram G. 
Berry, afterwards major-general, 
and killed at Chancellorsville, and 
subsequently by Col. Elijah Walker, 
now residing in Somerville at the 
advanced age of 87 years. 

1847. Abner Blaisdell Bennett: 
Is supposed to have served as a 
surgeon, but no date of his service 
can be obtained. Died July 26, 
1867. 

1847. Gilbert Wadleigh: Was 
appointed from New Hampshire, 
additional paymaster United States 
Volunteers, with rank of major 
July 30, 1864, and was mustered 
out Nov. 1, 1865. His service was 
in the Army of the Potomac and in 
paying ofT mustered-out troops in 
the summer and fall of 1865. Died 
March 8, 1886. 

1847. George Edmund Brickett, 
D.M.C. : Was commissioned in 
June, 1861, assistant surgeon Third 
Maine Volunteers ; was appointed, 
temporarily, surgeon of the Fifth 



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Maine, after the first battle of Bull 
Run, in place of the surgeon of that 
regiment, who was taken prisoner. 

Dr. Brickett served with the Fifth 
Maine during the whole of the Mc- 
Clellan campaign on the Peninsula 
until Harrison's Landing, where the 
surgeon of that regiment reported 
for duty. Soon after Dr. Brickett 
was appointed surgeon of the 
Twenty-first Maine Volunteers, a 
nine months' regiment, which was 
ordered to Louisiana ; was at the 
siege and surrender of Port Hud- 
son, and was mustered out with the 
regiment in August, 1863; soon 
after was appointed surgeon in 
charge of the United States General 
Hospital at Augusta, Me., which 
position he held till near the close 
of the war. For some time after- 
wards he was surgeon in charge of 
the United States Arsenal at Au- 
gusta, Me. He was in the fol- 
lowing battles: First Bull Run, 
West Point, Gaines Mills, White Oak 
Swamp, in Virginia, Plains Store, 
siege of Port Hudson, in Louisiana. 
1847. Daniel Dustin, D.M.C.: 
Was commissioned captain of Com- 
pany L, Eighth Illinois Cavalry, 
and mustered in Sept. 18, 18G1. 
Promoted to major, same regiment, 
Jan. 8, 1862. Was commissioned 
colonel of the One Hundred and 
Fifth Regiment Illinois Infantry 
Sept. 2, 1862. On the 1st of No- 
vember, 18G4, while at Atlanta, Ga., 
was placed in command of the 
Second Brigade, Third Division, 
Twentieth Army Corps, and con- 
tinued in such command till the 
close of the war. Was mustered 
out of the service June 7, 1865, hav- 
ing been made brigadier-general by 
brevet to date from March 16, 186.5. 
While connected with the Eighth 
Illinois Cavalry he was with the 
regiment in the Army of the Poto- 
mac until the evacuation of Har- 
rison's Landing, in August, 1862. 
Participated in McClellan's advance 
upon Manassas and the skirmishing 
that drove the enemy beyond the 



Rappahannock. Was in the Penin- 
sular campaign, including the siege 
of Yorktown and battle of Wil- 
liamsburg, the Seven Days' Fight, 
etc. While on picket and guard 
duty with his squadron of cavalry 
on the extreme right of the Union 
lines in the direction of Hanover 
Court House, and while reconnoi- 
tring beyond the picket lines, Major 
Dustin's comuiand received the 
first shots that were fired by the 
enemy in the Seven Days' Fight. 

Colonel Dustin was with the One 
Hundred and Fifth Illinois nearly 
all the time from its muster in 
until the close of the Atlanta cam- 
paign. The regiment was a part of 
the First Brigade, Third Division, 
Twentieth Army Corps, commanded 
by Gen. Benjamin Harrison, since 
president of the United States, and 
was engaged in picket, giiard, and 
scouting duty, at Tunnel Hill, Gal- 
latin, Lavergne, and Murfreesboro, 
Tenn. ; and during a portion of the 
fall of 1864, and a part of the 
winter of 1864-1865, Colonel Dus- 
tin was in command of Fort Neg- 
ley, at Nashville ; was with the regi- 
ment in all its engagements in the 
campaign of Atlanta, excepting that 
of Peach Tree Creek; was in com- 
mand of the Second Brigade in 
Sherman's march to the sea, the 
investment and siege of Savannah, 
in the engagements at Lawtonville, 
S. C, Averysboro, and Bentonville, 
N. C, and followed closely upon the 
heels of the enemy as the Union 
forces took possession of Raleigh. 
Died IMarch 30, 1892. 
1847. Heman Hosford Gillett, 
D.M.C. : Was commissioned assist- 
ant surgeon Eighth Regiment Ver- 
mont Volunteers Dec. 10, 1861 ; pro- 
moted surgeon June 25, 1862. 
IMustered out June 28, 1865. Tliis 
regiment saw most of its service in 
the Department of the Gulf under 
Gen. B. F. Butler, and participated 
in the final assault on Port Hudson, 
where it sufTered severely. Being 
ordered North in the summer of 



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DARTMOUTH ROLL OF HONOR 



1864, it took part in Sheridan's 
Shenandoah campaign and distin- 
guished itself in the battle of Cedar 
Creek under Gen. Stephen Thomas. 
1847. John Stevenson Hidden, 
D.M.C. : Was commissioned sur- 
geon in Fifteenth Kansas Cavalry 
Volunteers Feb. 3, 1864, but was 
probably not mustered into the 
United States service, as no record 
of such service appears in the Kan- 
sas records. 

1847. Lemuel Murray Willis, 
D.M.C. : Was commissioned assist- 
ant surgeon Twenty-sixth Massa- 
chusetts Volunteers July 14, 1862, 
and served with the regiment at 
New Orleans, La., until Oct. 6, 
1862, when he was appointed sur- 
geon of the Seventy-fourth United 
States Colored Infantry, otherwise 
called Second Louisiana Volun- 
teers; was stationed at Ship Is- 
land until Aug. 21, 1864, when he 
was transferred to Fort Pike, where 
he remained until honorably dis- 
charged. May 13, 1865. Died Jan. 
17, 1893. 

1848. William Badger: Was ap- 
pointed captain Fourth New Hamp- 
shire Volunteers Sept. 18, 1861; 
colonel Fourth New Hampshire Vol- 
unteers Feb. 26, 1865; captain 
Ninth United States Infantry June, 
1865; honorably mustered out April 
20, 1866. Appointed second lieu- 
tenant Sixth United States Infan- 
try May 19, 1866; first lieutenant, 
Feb. 9, 1867; captain, Dec. 15, 
1880; retired from disability in 
line of duty, Jan. 25, 1889. Brevet 
rank: brevet major of volunteers 
and brevet captain U. S. Army for 
faithful and meritorious service 
during the war. Colonel Badger 
sers^ed in the Department of the 
South from September, 1861, to 
April, 1864; in Virginia and Wash- 
ington, D. C, from 1864 to May, 
1866; in South Carolina from Au- 
gust, 1866, to August, 1867; at 
Columbia, S. C, Greensboro, and 
Raleigh, in 1868; at the Citadel in 
Charleston, S. C, March, 1869; 



at Fort Gibson, Ind. Ter. ; from 
there to Southwestern Kansas, Au- 
gust, 1869, to September, 1871; at 
Forts Hayes and Larned from Octo- 
ber, 1871, to May, 1872; at Fort 
Beaufort, Dak., June, 1872. From 
Beaufort he went to Stevenson, 
Dak.; at Fort A, Lincoln, Dak., 
October, 1873, and in that depart- 
ment to 1880. At Fort Cameron, 
Utah, August, 1881; on recruiting 
service at various points in 1881- 
1882 ; rejoined his company at Fort 
Douglass, Utah, June, 1883; and 
was at Fort Lewis, Col., in June, 
1888. He served on various other 
duties at all these different points. 
He was in the following battles: 
Port Royal Expedition, Battle of 
Pocotaligo, siege of Forts Wagner 
and Sumter, battle of Olustee, 
Fla., and in the Ute campaign, Col., 
1880. He was a grandson of Gen. 
James Badger, who was a captain 
in the Revolutionary War in 1776. 
Died May 12, 1897. 
1848. James Chaplin Beecher: 
Was appointed chaplain of the 
First Long Island Regiment, " The 
Brooklyn Phalanx," early in the 
war, but his personal inclinations 
led him to desire more active mili- 
tary duty, and he served as staff 
officer in a most suitable manner. 
He afterwards became senior cap- 
tain of the regiment, commanding 
Company A. Being honorably dis- 
charged from this regiment by 
reason of the expiration of the term 
of service. Captain Beecher re-en- 
tered the service as lieutenant-col- 
onel of the One Hundred and Forty- 
first New York. After a few weeks 
in the hospital he was again com- 
missioned as colonel of the First 
North Carolina Colored Volunteers 
— afterwards designated the Thirty- 
fifth Regiment of the United States 
Colored Troops — which he raised, 
organized, armed, and led for three 
years. After five years of constant 
service he resigned, with rank of 
brevet brigadier-general. General 
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of the South. In the herculean task 
of making trusted sokliers and men 
out of slaves escaping from bond- 
age, General Beecher's enthusiasm 
and tireless spirit found full scope. 
In a few months after taking com- 
mand of the regiment, all of its 
movements on dress parade were 
made with a precision second to no 
volunteer regiment in tlie army. 
When he opened his recruiting of- 
fice in May, 1863, in Newbern, N. C, 
he undertook the spiritual, as well 
as the physical, care of his men. It 
must be remembered that the of- 
ficers of colored troops had to work 
against great prejudice, for it was 
believed, and often said, that " the 
nigger would n't fight." It was 
largely owing to Colonel Beecher's 
untiring eflorts that the colored 
troops were placed on an equality 
with the white, in dvity and danger. 
The fall of 1864 saw Colonel Beecher 
at the head of his command engaged 
in an attempt to break the enemy's 
line on the Charleston and Savan- 
nah Railroad, which brought on the 
bloody engagement of Honey Hill. 
His horse having been shot under 
him, he charged the fortification on 
foot, at the head of his men, was 
three times wounded, and brought 
off at the close of the day shot 
through the body, it was supposed 
fatally. After recovery he went 
North on furlough, and rejoined the 
army just in season to enter 
Charleston after its evacuation. 
Here he was pvit in command of the 
upper half of the city, his troops 
occupying the Citadel, and on his 
first Sunday he preached in Zion 
Church, — the largest in the city. 
After three months' service in 
Charleston he was placed over the 
second Sub District of the Military 
District of that city. This district 
was about 90 miles square, and in- 
cluded the Sea Islands and some 
six hundred rice and cotton planta- 
tions, and two good-sized towns. 
Here he remained about a year, 
until the regiment was mustered 



out of service, in June, 186G. In 
this new and difficult task of recon- 
struction of affairs he was very suc- 
cessful, and won the hearty ap- 
proval of his superiors in the army 
and of all classes in his military 
district. A paper of that time thus 
speaks of him: "Honest, upright, 
uncompromising, consistent, with 
his whole heart in the work of 
securing equal rights to all men 
without regard to color, he has 
brought order out of confusion, and 
obtained the confidence both of the 
freedmen and their late owners." 
Died Aug. 25, 1886, at Elmira, N. Y. 
1848. Isaac Lewis Clarke: En- 
listed at Waukegan, 111., in July, 
1862, in Company G, Ninety-sixth 
Illinois Infantry. At the organiza- 
tion of the company, August 11, he 
was elected captain. When the 
regiment was mustered into the 
United States service, at Rockford, 
111., he was chosen lieutenant-colonel. 
From Rockford the regiment was 
ordered to Kentucky, and at New- 
port was assigned to the Second 
Brigade, Third Division, Army of 
Kentucky. During the fall of 1862 
and spring of 186.3 the regiment was 
a part of the ReserA^e Corps of the 
Army of the Cumberland, engaged 
in skirmishing expeditions and in 
similar service in the battle of 
Chickamauga. Colonel Clarke was 
continually on duty with the regi- 
ment during this time. At the 
battle of Chickamauga the Ninety- 
sixth was attached to the First Bri- 
gade, First Division of the Reserve 
Corps. On the second day of the 
battle the Reserve Corps was 
brought into action and was in the 
thickest of the fight, the Ninety- 
sixth forming the extreme right of 
the line. While Colonel Clarke was 
speaking words of cheer to the men 
a bullet struck him, inflicting a 
mortal wound, of which he died 
Sept. 22, 1863. The Regimental 
historian saj^s: "That to the brav- 
ery, care, and discipline of Colonel 
Clarke the regiment owed much of 



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its effectiveness in that supreme 
hour of its history. As a soldier 
he was fearless and brave, the peer 
of any one, and died as he had 
lived — a true Christian, a courte- 
ous gentleman, and a brave soldier." 
1848. Albert Harrison Crosby: 
Was appointed assistant surgeon 
Columbia Hospital, at Washington, 
D. C, in 18(J2, and subsequently de- 
tached as surgeon of the Thirteenth 
Regiment of Veteran Reserves. In 
1863 was post surgeon at Concord, 
N. H., and after the war served on 
the Board of Medical Pension Ex- 
aminers. In the latter part of 1863 
he was assistant to his father, Dr. 
Dixi Crosby, in the Medical Bureau 
of the provost marshal's office, in 
New Hampshire. Died, 1886. 

1848. George Washington Fay, 
D.M.C. : Was commissioned, Oct. 
6, 1862, as first assistant surgeon 
Thirty-second Regiment Wisconsin 
Volunteers, and served continuously 
as such until April 8, 1865. His 
service was mostly in the Army of 
the Tennessee. Died May 11, 1896. 

1849. Stephen Moody Crosby: 
Was appointed paymaster U. S. 
Army, with the rank of major, Nov. 
26, 1862; served in West Virginia, 
with the commands of Generals Kel- 
ley. Brooks, and Averill till the 
summer of 1864; was then trans- 
ferred to the Department of the 
Southwest; then to the Department 
of the Northwest, and put in charge 
of the post at Detroit till the sum- 
mer of 186.5; then transferred to 
the Department of Louisiana, under 
General Sheridan. He was brevetted 
lieutenant-colonel United States 
Volunteers Oct. 6, 1865, for faithful 
and meritorious service; resigned in 
November, 1865; mustered out Jan. 
16, 1866. 

1845. Everett Boynton: Enlisted 
as a private in the First Regiment 
Massachusetts Cavalry Sept. 4, 
1861, at Readville, Mass., and was 
ordered to Annapolis in December, 
1861. Tlie next movement of the 
regiment was to Hilton Head, S. C. 



Here Mr. Boynton was in the hos- 
pital with malarial fever. From 
South Carolina the regiment was 
sent to Maryland, and assisted in 
driving the enemy from South 
Mountain and Antietam, and 
marclied into Virginia towards 
Richmond. Early in 1863 Mr. 
Boynton was detailed from the regi- 
ment and joined the Signal Corps at 
Georgetown Heights, where he re- 
mained till after the battle of 
Gettysburg. During his third and 
last year of service, being incapaci- 
tated for active duty in the field, 
he was employed as clerk at the 
Rendezvous of Distribution, and 
was honorably discharged from the 
army on Sept. 25, 1864. 

1849. Philetus Tales: Enlisted in 
April, 1861, in Des Moines, la., in 
Captain Crocker's company. The 
company was organized too late to 
be mustered into three months' ser- 
vice, and was mustered, early in 
1861, into the service for three 
years, at Keokuk, la., as Company 
D of the Second Iowa Infantry. 
Mr. Fales Avas with the regiment in 
its many chases after the rebel 
guerillas, in Missouri, in the Grand 
Flotilla of General Fremont from 
St. Louis to Bird's Point, and there 
in camp under Gen. U. S. Grant, in 
September, when he was discharged 
in order to take the superintend- 
ency of a State institution for the 
blind, in St. Louis, Mo. 

1849. Charles Cogswell Hayes: 
Was appointed assistant surgeon 
Forty-third Regiment Wisconsin 
Volunteers, Aug. 16, 1864. The 
regiment was attaclied to tlie Fourth 
Division of the Twentieth Army 
Corps. March 13, 1865, Dr. Hayes 
was promoted to be surgeon of the 
regiment, and remained with it 
until it was discharged in June, 
1865. During the stay of the regi- 
ment at Johnsonville, Tenn., in the 
fall of 1864, the town was besieged 
by Forrest, and public property was 
destroyed amounting to millions of 
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a week after the siege, tlie regiment 
retired to Clarksville, and guarded 
tiiat post during a part of the 
winter, till after the battle of 
Xaslivillo. 
1849. Joseph Opdyke Hudnut: 
Was commissioned major of the 
Thirty-eighth Regiment Iowa Vol- 
unteers in September, 1802; was 
immediately proiiioted and left for 
the field as lieutenant-colonel. 
Brevetted colonel March 9, 1804, 
and brigadier-general, March 13, 
1805. 

The regiment was first ordered to 
Benton Barracks, St. Louis, ^lo. 
After remaining a few days at St. 
Louis it was ordered to proceed to 
New Madrid, Mo., and take posses- 
sion of the fort. The regiment was 
mostly made up of mechanics, and 
had soon displayed the practical 
nature of the Northern soldier by 
rebuilding the barracks and gim 
carriages, and putting the fort into 
war shape. In December, 1802, 
Colonel Hudnut, with the regiment, 
joined an expedition into Kentucky 
and western Tennessee, which had 
for its object the interception of 
the rebel General Forrest. Here the 
skill of the railroad men of the 
regiment came into play in the 
prompt rebuilding of the barracks 
and intrenchments burned by For- 
rest in his retreat. On returning to 
New Madrid the regiment was or- 
dered to join Major-General Her- 
ron's command, which, with General 
Blunt's Division, formed the Army 
of the Frontier of about 13,000 men, 
who campaigned in southwestern 
Missouri, engaging Price's and Mar- 
maduke's commands. Early in 
May, 1863, General Herron's com- 
mand joined General Grant's forces 
before Vicksburg. On the fall of 
that stronghold, July 4, 1803, the 
whole command joined in the move- 
ment to capture General Johnston's 
forces. On returning to Vicks- 
burg the command was at once 
ordered to join General Banks be- 
fore Port Hudson. Here the regi- 



ment suffered greatly from sickness. 
For some time after this the regi- 
ment did service at Brownsville, 
Tex., and was engaged in building 
the railroad from Brownsville to 
Brazos. The regiment was called 
the " Railroad Regiment." After 
completing the railroad the regi- 
ment was ordered to New Orleans 
and took a prominent part in Can- 
by's expedition to Fort Gaines and 
Fort Morgan. From this time 
Colonel Hudnut was kept on de- 
tached service, mostly engineering, 
until an order came for all officers 
absent from their regiments on de- 
tached service to applj' to the near- 
est mustering officer for honorable 
discharge. On strength of General 
Herron's despatch to the depart- 
ment, " that Brazos was no longer 
an island, as Colonel Hudnut's en- 
gineering skill had annexed it to 
the mainland of Texas," he was 
brevetted brigadier-general. 

1849. Frederick Clarence Inilay: 
Appointed, from New York, acting 
assistant paymaster U. S. Navy 
Dec. 0, 1802; mustered out Dec. 19, 
1867. In 1802 he was on duty on 
the ironclad steamer " Lehigh," in 
the South Atlantic Squadron, whose 
limits of operations Avere from 
Georgetown, N. C, on the north, to 
Cape Canaveral, on the Florida 
coast. In 1864 he was on duty on 
the screw steamer *' Daylight," in 
the North Atlantic Squadron, whose 
limits of operations were on the 
coast of Virginia and North Caro- 
lina. In 1865 he was on the " Mian- 
tonomahj" which was in commis- 
sion at Washington, D. C. He was 
appointed, Nov. 7, 1800, past as- 
sistant paymaster, with rank of 
lieutenant, and remained on the 
" Miantonomah." 

1849. Jolin Marshall Kimball: 
Previous to the war lie was co7i- 
nected with the New York State 
Militia, and had been successively 
adjutant, lieutenant-colonel, and 
colonel. At the beginning of the 
war, when the Twenty-fifth Regi- 



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ment New York Militia went to the 
front, Captain Kimball volunteered 
and served as chaplain. When the 
regiment responded for an addi- 
tional three months' service, in 
18G2, he was appointed adjutant, 
and held that position during the 
brief term of service. He was mus- 
tered out with his regiment. Died 
April 19, 1887. 
1849. Eugene Francis Sanger: 
Entered the service from Bangor, 
Me., early in 1861, as surgeon of 
the First Maine Regiment. Pro- 
moted from regimental surgeon to 
brigade or staff surgeon, by exami- 
nation at Washington before the 
Regular Army Board, Nov. 9, 1861. 
Served in the Army of the Potomac 
until March 9, 1862, a portion of 
the time on Gen. W. S. Hancock's 
staff. Joined Gen. B. F. Butler's 
expedition against Forts Jackson 
and St. Philip, La., the day of the 
commencement of the bombardment, 
and was on General Phelps' staff at 
the surrender to that general. Had 
charge of St. James Hospital in the 
summer of 1862. Was on Gen. T. 
W. Sherman's staff, as medical 
director of the defences of New Or- 
leans, in the spring of 1863, and 
reported upon the advisability of 
sending out of our lines disloyal 
doctors, who thought we could not 
spare them because of the approach 
of yellow fever. Attended to the 
wounded after the battle of Baton 
Rouge, and siege of Port Hudson. 
Was medical director of the Nine- 
teenth Army Corps during the Red 
River campaign, and participated 
in all of the engagements. Organ- 
ized the Elmira, N. Y., Prison Camp 
— medical department — in the sum- 
mer of 1864. Had charge of the 
hospital at Detroit, Mich., during 
the winter of 1864. Was medical 
director of East Tennessee, with 
headquarters at Chattanooga, on 
General Gillem's staff, vmtil Sep- 
tember, 18G.'5. Brevetted lieutenant- 
colonel at the close of the war. Was 
afterwards connected with the 



Maine Militia as surgeon. Died 
July 24, 1897. 

1849. Washington Lafayette 
Schenck, D.M.C.: Was commis- 
sioned surgeon Seventeenth Regi- 
ment Ohio Volunteers Oct. 1, 1861. 
After the evacuation of Corinth, 
Miss., he was placed in charge of the 
Driver House Hospital near Cor- 
inth, and during August, Septem- 
ber, and October, 1862, had charge 
of general hospitals Nos. 10 and 13, 
Louisville, Ky., and when relieved 
from that duty was placed tempor- 
arily on the staff of Ma j. -Gen. 
Schuyler Hamilton, where he re- 
mained until failing health obliged 
him to resign his commission, Dec. 
24, 1862. 

1850. Robert William Carr: En- 
listed as a private in Company K, 
Ninth Infantry of ]\Iaine Volun- 
teers Sept. 20, 1861; mustered into 
service Sept. 21, for three years; 
discharged March 21, 1862, by 
reason of disability. Died, 1864. 

1850. Nathaniel Colver: Was a 
private in the Ninety-fifth Illinois 
Regiment during the last year of 
the War of the Rebellion, during 
which time he was detailed as 
clerk at headquarters, although en- 
gaged in many battles. He took 
part in expelling Price from Mis- 
souri, in the battle of Nashville, 
and in the capture of the forts 
around Mobile. During the battle 
of Nashville the brigade of which 
the Ninety-fifth Regiment composed 
a part came out of a piece of thick 
woods on the double quick, and at- 
tacked a Confederate brigade be- 
hind a high, flat stone wall, drove 
the rebels, and succeeded in captur- 
ing a whole regiment. He was mus- 
tered out of service with his regi- 
ment. 

1850. Dewitt Clinton Cram: Was 
appointed captain First Iowa Cav- 
alry November, 1862; promoted to 
major of same regiment December, 
1864; mustered out of service Nov. 
3, 186.5; breAJ'etted lieutenant-col- 
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unteers to date from March 13, 18G5. 
The regiment was organized in 1862, 
and expected to be sent to Louis- 
ville, Ky., to join the Army of 
Rosecrans; instead was sent into 
the Northwest on account of the 
Sioux outbreak. Early in 18G3 it 
was ordered to Dakota, and re- 
mained there till troops could be 
raised in that region. The regiment 
was a part of the Northwestern Ex- 
pedition, under command of Gen. 
Alfred Sully of the regular army, 
and continued in that region till 
mustered out Nov. 3, 1865. A por- 
tion of this time Alajor Cram served 
as assistant adjutant-general on the 
staff of General Sully. The regi- 
ment saw a great deal of hard ser- 
vice, and had more casualties than 
any other of the eight regiments of 
cavalry from Iowa. 

1850. Edward. Curran Dickinson: 
Was commissioned surgeon of the 
Tenth Missouri Cavalry in 1862, and 
resigned in 18G5. Died Dec. 13, 
1882. 

1850. George Webb Dodge: Was 
appointed chaplain of the Eleventh 
New York Volunteers — otherwise 
known as Ellsworth's Zouaves — 
April 20, 1861. When organized 
the regiment proceeded at once to 
Washington, via Annapolis, and was 
ordered from there to Alexandria. 
Chaplain Dodge was one of the five 
men who accompanied Colonel Ells- 
worth when he ascended the stairs 
of the Marshall House to haul down 
the Confederate flag, and was by 
his side when he received the fatal 
shot. Mr. Dodge was taken prisoner 
at the battle of Bull Run July 21, 
1861, and sent to Libby Prison, 
Richmond, Va. ; afterwards to Cas- 
tle Pinckney, S. C, where he suf- 
fered a long and severe illness from 
yellow fever. The same winter he 
was removed to Charleston Jail, 
from thence to Columbia, S. C, and 
in a few weeks to Salisbury, N. C, 
and again to Libby Prison, where 
he was exchanged July, 1862. The 
long and tedious confinement in 



rebel prisons so undermined his 
constitution that he was obliged to 
resign from the army soon after his 
release. Died July 2, 1881. 

1850. Charles Cogswell Jewett: 
Was commissioned surgeon of the 
Sixteenth Regiment Massachusetts 
Volunteers Aug. 5, 1861 ; mustered 
out on the 27th day of July, 1864. 
The Sixteenth Regiment was com- 
manded by Col. Powell T. Wyman, 
and was one of the fighting regi- 
ments of Hooker's Division, Third 
Army Corps, Army of the Potomac. 
It participated in the battles around 
Norfolk in May, 1862, then to the 
front with McClellan at Seven 
Pines, fighting at Glendale, where 
Colonel Wyman was killed, thence 
to the Second Bull Run, Fredericks- 
burg, Chancellorsville, and Gettys- 
burg. In the last battle Surgeon 
Jewett acted as surgeon-in-chief of 
the Second Division, Third Army 
Corps. The regiment was next en- 
gaged at Mine Run and was in the 
campaign in 1864 from Spottsyl- 
vania to Petersburg, when on July 
11, 1864, it left the front for Boston, 
having completed its three years' 
service. During its term of service 
it lost 41 commissioned officers and 
658 men killed, wounded, and miss- 
ing. The services of Surgeon Jew- 
ett were so well appreciated that 
he was offered an appointment as 
surgeon in the regular army, which 
he declined. While surgeon of the 
Sixteenth he performed one of the 
first successful amputations at the 
hip joint, and after being placed in 
charge of the Second Division he for 
some time had charge of the hospi- 
tals at Fort Monroe. Died April 
13, 1884. 

1850. Nathan Smith Lincoln: 
Was an acting assistant surgeon 
U. S. Army. Entered upon his ser- 
vice immediately after the first 
battle of Bull Run, and was among 
the first to render surgical aid 
and superintend the removal of the 
wounded to Washington. He also 
went to the front during the in- 



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vasion under Gk;neral Early. He 
performed much service in general 
hospitals in Washington during the 
war, as is shown by references to 
his operations and reports in the 
medical and surgical history of the 
war. Died Oct. 14, 1898. 

1850. John Ordronaux: Soon 
after the breaking out of the Civil 
War he was appointed by Governor 
Morgan, of New York, surgeon to 
examine drafted men from the City 
of Brooklyn for admission to the 
army. In April, 1863, he was com- 
missioned by President Lincoln 
surgeon to the Board of Enrolment 
of the First Congressional District 
of New York. About this time he 
published the first American work 
on military hygiene, entitled " Hints 
on Health in Armies," which was 
followed by " A Manual for Mili- 
tary Surgeons." Between the pub- 
lication of these two volumes he 
went to Europe, and collected mate- 
rial for a " Report on Pensions and 
Disabled Soldiers," founded upon 
the military systems of European 
governments. This report, which 
was intended for the use of the 
Committees on Military Affairs of 
the Senate and House, was the 
result of over a year's labor and 
correspondence with foreign govern- 
ments. On the last call for troops 
Dr. Ordronaux accepted the posi- 
tion of surgeon of the Fifteenth 
Regiment New Y'ork Militia, and 
started for the field, but was de- 
tained with his regiment, guarding 
the approaches to New York Har- 
bor, at Fort Richmond, until the 
unfortunate conflict between the 
governor of New York and the Sec- 
retary of War resulted in the dis- 
bandment of the regiment, after the 
short service of a month. 

1850. Sam Gerrish Dearborn, 
D.M.C. : Surgeon Eighth Regiment 
New Hampshire Volunteers. Ap- 
pointed Oct. 15, 18G1, mustered in 
Dec. 25, 18G1. Resigned Aug. 19, 
1862. Appointed by the governor of 
New Hampshire Sept. 29, 1864, to 



visit the sick in the lines in front 
of Petersburg, Va., and was on 
duty in hospital service in Ninth 
and Eighteenth Army Corps during 
the winter of 1804-1865. Com- 
missioned surgeon of Eighteenth 
New Hampshire Volunteers, but 
declined appointment March 14, 
1865. His service as surgeon of the 
Eighth New Hampshire was with 
the Army of the Gulf, imder com- 
mand of General Butler. Died 
May 8, 1903. 

1850. James Danforth Folsom, 
D.M.C. : Was counnissioned Nov. 
4, 1862, surgeon of the Seventeenth 
Regiment New Hampshire Volun- 
teers, and served as such until 
April 16, 1863, when he was mus- 
tered out. 

1850. Charles Kinney, D.M.C: 
Surgeon in the U. S. Army. No 
information has been obtained con- 
cerning the length of service. Died 
Feb. 15, 1865, at Fort Gibson, 
Cherokee Nation, Ind. Ter. 

1850. Albert Alonzo Moulton, 
D.M.C. : Was commissioned Aug. 
22, 1861, surgeon of the Third New 
Hampshire Volunteers; after serv- 
ing about a year was obliged to re- 
sign on account of ill health Oct. 
31, 1862. He was in the battles of 
Port Royal and James Island, and 
other battles in that department, 
until discharged. Died April 26, 
1890. 

1850. Moody Cook Tolman, 
D.M.C. : Was commissioned surgeon 
of the Second Regiment Minnesota 
Volunteers June 16, 1862, and re- 
signed Dec. 31, 1864. 

1850. John Wheeler: Enlisted in 
1864, and served three months in 
the Carver United States General 
Hospital, and following this, one 
month in the field with the Forty- 
second Massachusetts Volunteers. 
While in Washington he was ap- 
pointed assistant surgeon of the 
Fifth New Hampshire Volunteers, 
but was forced to decline the com- 
mission on account of the precarious 
state of his health. Died Dec. 21, 
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1851. George Bell: Is supposed to 
have been in the urmy, but no record 
of his service can be obtained. Died 
Sept. 2, ISG4. 

1851. Richard Baxter Foster: 
Enlisted as a private Sept 17, 1862, 
in Company K, First Regiment 
Nebraska Volunteers, organized at 
first as infantry, but afterwards 
transformed to cavalry. He served 
in this regiment for five months as 
private and corporal, and saw but 
one battle, — Cape Girardeau, April 
26, 1803. He went before an Ex- 
amining Board for a position in a 
colored regiment, and in 1863 was 
commissioned as first lieutenant 
in the Sixty-second United States 
Colored Infantry December 29. He 
served in this regiment till Jan. 19, 
1866, seeing only one more battle, 
— that of Palmetto Ranch, Tex., 
May 13, 1865, which was said to 
have been the last battle of the war. 
For gallant and meritorious ser- 
vice in this battle he was brevetted 
captain. Died March 30, 1901. 

1851. Nathan Lord: Was a son of 
Nathan Lord, whom the Alumni of 
Dartmouth from 1828 to 1863 will 
always hold in loving remembrance 
as its honored president. At the 
breaking out of the war he was ap- 
pointed a captain of the Seventh 
Indiana, a three months' regiment, 
and saw service under General Mc- 
Clellan in West Virginia. He was 
recommended to Gov. Erastus Fair- 
banks, by its colonel, as being " as 
kind and merciful as he was brave 
and heroic." Governor Fairbanks 
commissioned him lieutenant-colonel 
of the Fifth Vermont Volunteers in 
September, 1861, but he had hardly 
accepted the position Avhen he was 
taken from it to command the Sixth 
Vermont, then being organized. His 
commission of colonel of the Sixth 
dated Sept. 16, 1861. He served 
continuously with the regiment as 
its commander till Dec. 18, 1862, 
when he resigned on accoimt of ill 
health. The regiment distinguished 
itself in the Seven Days' Fight on 



the Peninsula, and, at the battle 
of Savage's Station, lost heavily in 
killed and wounded. Colonel Lord 
was of commanding presence and a 
fearless and efiicient officer. Died 
Oct. 16, 1885. 
1851. Redfield Proctor: Was of 
revolutionary stock, his grand- 
father, Capt. Leonard Proctor, hav- 
ing fought under Washington, at 
Trenton and Monmouth, and on 
other battlefields of the Revolution. 
When the Third Regiment of Ver- 
mont Volunteers was organized he 
was appointed by Gov. Erastus 
Fairbanks its quartermaster, and 
was mustered into the service, at 
St. Johnsbury, June 19, 1861, and 
served with the regiment in the 
vicinity of Washington till Septem- 
ber 25, when he was appointed major 
of the Fifth Vermont Vokmteers. 
He served in this capacity till July 
11, 1802, when he resigned to ac- 
cept the colonelcy of the Fifteenth 
Vermont Volunteers (a nine months' 
regiment ) , being commissioned 
Sept. 26, 1862. His record with 
the Third and Fifth Regiments was 
a part of the history of the First 
Vermont Brigade, of which every 
Vermonter is justly proud, and he 
was connected with it till after the 
Seven Days' Fight on the Penin- 
sula. The service of the Second 
Vermont Brigade was mainly in the 
Department of Wasliington, com- 
manded by General Casey, the bri- 
gade being commanded first by Gen. 
E. H. Stoughton, and afterwards by 
Gen. Geo. J. Stannard. Its duties 
were not arduous, consisting prin- 
cipally of guarding the Orange and 
Alexandria Railroad until June, 
1863. when Meade's and Lee's armies 
moved towards Pennsylvania on 
parallel lines and fouglit the deci- 
sive battle of Gettysburg. The Sec- 
ond Vermont Brigade joined the 
Army of the Potomac at Emmetts- 
burg, and was assigned to the First 
Corps. Soon after the battle, the 
time of the Fifteenth Regiment hav- 
ing expired, it returned to Vermont, 



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and Colonel Proctor was mustered 
out with it Aug. 8, 1863. As an 
officer Colonel Proctor was digni- 
■ fied, courteous, and kind, an excel- 
lent disciplinarian, but easily ap- 
proachable by officers and men. In 
1889 he was made Secretary of War 
by President Harrison, resigning on 
his election to the U. S. Senate. 

1851. John Richards: Enlisted 
from Pittston, Lucerne Co., Pa., 
June 27, 1863, as a private in Com- 
pany A, Forty-first Regiment Penn- 
sjdvania Volunteers, and discharged 
for disability Aug. 3, 1863. Died 
March 15, 1892. 

1851. Henry Charles Blanchard, 
D.M.C.: Was commissioned major 
of the Seventy-eighth Regiment 
New York Volunteers April 24, 
1862, and was promoted to lieuten- 
ant-colonelcy of the same regiment 
Jan. 7, 1863; was in many im- 
portant battles and was wounded 
at Cedar Mountain; resigned his 
commission April 12, 1863, in con- 
sequence of wounds received while 
in service. Died Aug. 21, 1881, at 
Jamestown, N. Y. 

1851. Hadley Bradley Fowler, 
D.M.G. : Was commissioned sur- 
geon of the Twelfth New Hamp- 
shire Volunteers Aug. 28, 1862; 
was captured by Stuart's Cavalry 
at Warrenton, Va., in the same 
year; returned to the regiment the 
following December and remained 
with it till the 1st of May, 1863; 
was detailed to take charge of the 
Third Division, Third Corps Hospi- 
tal, during the battle of Chancellors- 
ville. On the march to Gettysburg 
was detailed as operating surgeon 
of the Third Brigade, Second Divi- 
sion, Third Corps, and remained in 
this position at the battle of Gettys- 
burg and Wapping Heights, after 
which the Twelfth Regiment was 
sent to Point Lookout, Md., to es- 
tablish a prison hospital, of which 
Dr. Fowler had the first charge, re- 
maining with the regiment until 
May 10, 1864, when the regiment 
was transferred to the Army of the 



James. May 16 following was op- 
erating surgeon for the Second Bri- 
gade, Second Division, Eighteenth 
Army Corps, and at the Battle of 
Drury's Bluff was promoted to chief 
operator of the corps, and held that 
position till the battle of Cold Har- 
bor, at which time he was ordered 
to take charge of the Eighteenth 
Army Corps Hospital, which posi- 
tion he held till the following Sep- 
tember, when a general 4iospital for 
the Army of the James was ordered 
to be built at Point of Rocks, Va., 
of which Dr. Fowler had the super- 
intendence. This position he held 
until the close of the war. Was 
in the battle of Chancellorsville, 
Gettysburg, Wapping Heights, Ber- 
muda Hundred, Swift Creek, Drury's 
Bluff, and Cold Harbor. From No- 
vember, 1864, to the close of the 
war, he was in command of the post 
at Bermuda and Point of Rocks. 
Died at Bristol, N. H., Jan. 11, 
1893. 

1851. Obadiah. Jackson Hall, 
D.M.C. : Was for a short time sur- 
geon in the Thirty-third Regiment 
Ohio Vohmteers in the winter of 
1861 and 1862, when his health 
failed and he was obliged to resign 
his position. Died, 1868. 

1851. Albert Newman, D.M.C: 
Was commissioned surgeon of the 
Third Regiment Kansas Volunteers 
July 29, 1861; served with this 
regiment at Fort Scott, Kan., and 
vicinity until April 19, 1862, when 
the Third and Fourth Kansas Regi- 
ments were consolidated and named 
the Tenth. Surgeon Newman was 
then assigned to duty at Post Hos- 
pital at Leavenworth, Kan., and 
shortly afterwards was detailed as 
acting surgeon of the First Regi- 
ment Kansas Volunteers ; was on 
duty with this regiment in Ken- 
tucky and Tennessee until January, 
1863, when he was ordered to re- 
port to the commanding officer De- 
partment of INIissouri ; was then 
assigned to duty as medical direc- 
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Frontier, headquarters at Spring- 
field, ^lo., where he served until 
July 25, IS 63, when he was mus- 
tered out of service. 

1851. Samuel Henry Melcher, 
D.^I.C. : Was commissioned assist- 
ant surgeon Fifth Missouri Vol- 
unteer Infantry May 7, 1861; 
afterwards acted as brigade surgeon 
of the First Brigade Missouri State 
Militia December, 1861; surgeon in 
charge of Hickory Street Hospital, 
McDowell's College ( rebel prison ) , 
and United States Marine General 
Hospital, 1862; medical director, 
Army of the Frontier, winter of 
1862-1863; surgeon in charge of 
Ironton General Hospital in the 
spring of 1863; was commissioned 
lieutenant-colonel Sixth Missouri 
Cavalry May 1863, and appointed 
acting assistant inspector general. 
Department of the Missouri, on the 
staff of Major-Generals Schofield 
and Rosecrans, until October, 1864; 
was acting aide-de-camp to Major- 
General Pleasanton during the Price 
campaign in Missouri in 1864; was 
post commander at Jefferson City, 
Mo., in December, 1864; was in the 
battles of Carthage, Mo., July 5, 
1861, Dug. Spring, Mo., Aug. 2, 
1861, Wilson's Creek, Aug. 10, 
1861, Springfield, Jan. 8, 1863, and 
the skirmishes and battles during 
the Price campaign in 1864; mus- 
tered out Dee. 24, 1864. 

1852. John Bell: Was commis- 
sioned, Aug. 26, 1861, as assistant 
siirgeon in the regular army, hav- 
ing been examined by a Medical 
Board sitting at New York. Was 
first attached to the Sixth Cavalry, 
at Hyattsville, Md. ; was taken 
sick Nov. 1, 1861, and confined sev- 
eral weeks in Seminary Hospital, 
GeorgetoAvn, with typhoid fever. 
Upon recovery he was assigned to 
duty in the hospital. In 1862 he 
was stationed in the United States 
General Hospital, at Port Royal, 
S. C; in 1863 with the First Ar- 
tillery, Beaufort, S. C. Late in 
1863 he was, at his own request, 



sent into the field, being transferred 
to the Army of the Potomac, Fifth 
Corps. Artillery Brigade, Battery D. 
In 1864 he was attached to the 
Seventeenth United States Infan- 
try, Army of the Potomac. Thence 
he was transferred to the Eighth 
United States Infantry, then sta- 
tioned at Lafayette Barracks, Md. 
In 1865 he was made surgeon in 
charge of the General Hospital at 
Annapolis Junction, Md., where he 
remained until the close of the war 
and subsequent breaking up of the 
hospital, when he was sent to Fort 
Jefferson, Fla., where he remained 
till June 24, 1867, when, on account 
of ill health, he resigned his com- 
mission. Died Nov. 13, 1883. 

1852. Enoch Blanchard: Was ap- 
pointed, early in 1862, assistant sur- 
geon of the Seventh Vermont Volun- 
teers, and went with it to the De- 
partment of the Gulf, in C4eneral 
Butler's New England Division ; 
was promoted to surgeon of the 
same regiment Sept. 15, 1802, and 
was with the regiment during all 
its movements. He was present at 
the capture of New Orleans, Baton 
Rouge, first siege of Vicksburg, and 
various movements in Louisiana, 
at the capture of Mobile and its 
defences, and in the subsequent cam- 
paign in the interior of Alabama. 
He afterwards went to Brownsville, 
Tex., and left the service Sept. 15, 
1805. He was on the staff of the 
commanding general of the District 
of West Florida, and also, later, on 
the staff of the commanding officer 
of the forces north of the Rio 
Grande. Died March 11. 1889. 

1852. George Clary: Appointed as- 
sistant surgeon Thirteenth Connec- 
ticut Infantry Nov. 9, 1801; mus- 
tered into service Feb. 18, 1862; pro- 
moted surgeon May 23, 1863. He 
was at the battles of Georgia Land- 
ing, La., and Irish Bend, La., 
April 14, 1863; battle of Cane 
River Crossing, La., April 23, 1864; 
battle of Winchester, Va.. Sept. 19, 
1864; and Cedar Creek, Va., Oct. 



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19, 1864. He was mustered out 
with the regiment April 25, 1866. 

1852. George Avery Crosby: 
At the breaking out of the war Mr. 
Crosby was engaged on the Callao 
and Chineha Ishxnds where he was 
superintending the erection of hos- 
pital buildings for the government. 
When the news came that the 
country was engaged in civil war, 
he dropped his humanitarian work 
at once, and took passage for the 
United States. On his arrival he 
was drafted, but furnished a substi- 
tute, and then repairing to New- 
buryport, Mass., offered his services 
to the surgeon-general, which were 
accepted. For three years he was 
in active service in camp and field, 
paying his own expenses throughout 
the time. Died Jan. 30, 1888. 

1852. Carlton Pennington Frost: 
Was commissioned surgeon of the 
Fifteenth Regiment Vermont Volun- 
teers Oct. 2, 1862, and mustered 
into the United States service Oct. 
22, 1862, at Brattleboro. He re- 
signed his commission May 3, 1863. 
The regiment was commanded by 
Col. Redfield Proctor (Dart. Coll. 
1851) and was a part of the Second 
Vermont Brigade, commanded by 
Generals Stoughton and Stannard. 
The service of the regiment was 
mainly in the Department of Wash- 
ington, and consisted in doing guard 
duty along the Orange and Alex- 
andria Railroad. During his con- 
nection with the regiment, Surgeon 
Frost was known as a faithful, con- 
scientious officer. After his resig- 
nation he served until June 15, 
1865, as examining surgeon at the 
draft rendezvous at Woodstock, Vt. 
Died May 24, 1896. 

1852. Charles Edward Hovey: 
At the breaking out of the war he 
was president of the Xormal Uni- 
versity of Illinois. During the sum- 
mer vacation of 1861 he went to 
Washington City, and was a spec- 
tator at the first battle of Bull Run. 
He was so stirred with its results 
that he hurried home and enlisted 



for the war, along -witli two compa- 
nies of his own students and eight 
companies from the students and 
their friends of other colleges and 
schools of the State. By a vote of 
the soldiers JNIr. Hovey was recom- 
mended for colonel, and was ap- 
pointed colonel of the regiment — 
which became the Thirty-third 
Illinois Infantry — to rank as such 
from Aug. 15, 1861. His first en- 
gagement was in the battle of 
Fredericktown, Mo. ; his first ex- 
perience in constructing defences 
was in the building of Fort Hovey, 
at the outpost south of Pilot Knob, 
between the villages of Ironton and 
Arcadia. He earned his promotion 
from colonel to brigadier-general at 
the battle of Cache River, at Hill's 
Plantation, near Cotton Plant, in 
Arkansas, where his advance — 
about 500 strong — having run up 
against Rust's Rebels — about 5000 
strong — and been driven back, was 
hurriedly reformed, part of them in 
ambush, and utterly defeated the 
whole attacking party. The enemy 
fled from the field in great disorder, 
and did not stop running until they 
placed White River between them- 
selves and their pursuers. One re- 
port says : " The rebels did not stop 
running until they had gone eight 
miles gouth of Little Rock." Gen- 
eral Steele's Official Report says: 
" Colonel Hovey advanced with eight 
companies of infantry, and his own 
brigade and one small steel gun, and 
encountered the enemy in consider- 
able force. A fierce engagement 
ensued in which the enemy was de- 
feated and totally routed, with 
great loss on his part." The Offi- 
cial Rebel Report — General Hind- 
man's — says : " General Rust'a 
forces amounted to abovit 5000 ef- 
fectives. Curtis's advance crossed 
Cache River and attacked General 
Rust, whose command, after an en- 
gagement of about thirty minutes, 
retreated in great disorder across 
White RiA'er." Ge-neral Hovey com- 
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left, next to Haines Bluff, in 
Sliernian'3 assaults on Vicksburg 
Heights from Chickasaw Bayou, in 
December, 1862, and the brigade on 
the extreme right of the Union 
forces at the capture of Arkansas 
Post, in 1863, where he was twice 
wounded. He was brevetted major- 
general, to rank from March 13, 
1865, " for gallant and meritorious 
services in battle, particularly at 
Arkansas Post, Jan. 11, 1863." 
While encamped at Young's Point, 
opposite Vicksburg, he was pros- 
trated with malarial fever, from 
■which he did not recover for years. 
He left the service May 2, 1863. 
Died Nov. 7, 1897. 

1852. Edward Center Kinsman: 
Is supposed to have been in the 
army, but there is no record of his 
service to be obtained. Died, 1871. 

1852. John Johnson Ladd: Was ap- 
pointed, from New Hampshire, ad- 
ditional paymaster United States 
Volunteers, with rank of major, 
July 2, 1S64, and mustered out Nov. 
1, 1865. Died Jan. 27, 1889. 

1852. Joseph Warren Odell: In 
July, 1863, was ordered by the medi- 
cal director in Boston to report to 
the commanding officer at Fort 
Preble, Portland Harbor, Me., to 
take charge of the hospital at that 
station, as acting assistant sur- 
geon. This station was at the time 
recruiting station for the Seven- 
teenth Regiment U. S. Army. His 
entire service was at this fort, and 
ended in July, 1865. 

1852. James Colby Dorr, D.M.C.: 
Left his home in March, 1861, and 
proceeded to Washington as a vol- 
unteer; was appointed to a position 
in Mount Pleasant Hospital, and 
served there until .June, 1861. Hav- 
ing passed an examination before 
a board of twelve surgeons was 
commissioned by President Lincoln 
as brigade surgeon of United States 
Volunteers. He then took super- 
visory charge of eight hospitals in 
Washington, and served in this 
capacity for a year. A change then 



taking place in the hospital system. 
Dr. Dorr was made medical pur- 
veyor in the Department of Ten- 
nessee, in which position he was 
actively engaged for two years; 
he was then forced to resign by 
reason of ill health and return 
home. Died Sept. 18, 1880. 

1852. Melvin John Hyde, D.M.C. : 
Was commissioned assistant sur- 
geon of the Second Regiment Ver- 
mont Volunteers Sept. 12, 1863; 
promoted surgeon Aug. 1, 1864; 
mustered out July 15, 1865. The 
Second Vermont was a part of the 
Vermont Brigade, belonging to the 
Sixth Corps of the Army of the 
Potomac. In August, 1863, it was 
ordered to New York City to aid in 
quelling expected riots. It was here 
that Assistant Surgeon Hyde joined 
the regiment. He was connected 
with it during the Battles of the 
Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold 
Harbor, and the siege of Peters- 
burg, and in the Shenandoah cam- 
paign, remaining with it till the 
last men were mustered out. Died, 
1874. 

1852. William Buzzell Rey- 
nolds, D.M.C: Enlisted as a pri- 
vate in Company F, Second Regi- 
ment, Berdan's Sharpshooters, and 
was mustered into service Nov. 26, 
1861 ; was made a sergeant at the 
organization of the company, and 
was commissioned assistant surgeon 
of the regiment Dec. 5, 1861; pro- 
moted to surgeon Aug. 12, 1863. 
Maj. E. T. Rowell (Dart. Coll. 
1861) says of him: "Dr. Reynolds 
was in the front rank of army sur- 
geons, in skill and devotion to duty, 
furnished by New Hampsliire, dur- 
ing the war, and was considered 
one of the best surgeons in our 
corps." Died Jan. 11, 1877, at 
Lynn, Mass. 

1852. Wentworth Ricker Rich- 
ardson, D.M.C: Was commissioned 
assistant surgeon of the U. S. Navy 
(date unknown) , and was ordered to 
Key West, Fla., in July, 1864. Dur- 
ing the season of the yellow fever 



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epidemic he was stricken with the 
disease and died July 20, 18G4. 

1853. Clarence Linden Burnett: 
Was in the practice of the law in 
Wall St., N. Y., at the breaking 
out of the war, and in January, 
18G2, applied for a position in the 
navy, and received orders to report 
on board of the U. S. gunboat 
" Kennebec " as paymaster. Dec. 
1, 1863, he was off Mobile, and Feb- 
ruary, 1864, had " been more than 
two years in the service of his coun- 
try on board ship, witnessing and 
aiding the encouraging progress 
implied in the fact that when he 
went out our government had no 
foothold in the Gulf, west of the 
Tortugas, except Ship Island; while 
in two years only Mobile and Gal- 
veston remained to be occupied." 
About the last of May, 1864, he 
was transferred to the U. S. Re- 
ceiving Ship " North Carolina," 
Brooklyn navy yard, where he was 
on duty until the 22d of August 
following. Died, 1883. 

1853. Charles Monroe Chase: 
Was connected with the Thirteenth 
Illinois Infantry as bandmaster, on 
a special contract for three months. 
Died Nov. 1, 1902. 

1853. Alpheus Benning Crosby: 
Was commissioned surgeon of the 
First Regiment New Hampshire 
Volunteers May 1, 1861; promoted 
to brigade surgeon Aug. 12, 1861, 
and assigned as division surgeon 
on Gen. Charles P. Stone's staff; 
afterwards served as medical direc- 
tor on the staffs of General Sedg- 
wick, Casey, and Peck successively. 
Participated in the battle of Bull 
Rim, the seven days' fighting be- 
fore Richmond, Va., in June, 1862, 
and in all the principal engage- 
ments of the Army of the Potomac 
up to the second battle of Bull Run. 
Resigned his commission June 30, 
1862. Was reappointed by the 
Secretary of War in the September 
following, but declined the appoint- 
ment. Died Aug. 16, 1877, at Han- 
over, N. H. 



1853. Calvin Gross Hollenbush: 
In November, 1856, was examined 
for surgeon and passed before the 
Army Board, in St. Louis, Mo., there 
being twenty-two candidates, of 
whom only two passed a satisfac- 
tory examination. Was ordered as 
surgeon to California in March, 
1857, and sent to a post in the ex- 
treme north of the State — Fort 
Crook, Shasta Co. Here he re- 
mained three years, and in May, 

1860, returned home on sick leave, 
and repaired to Magnolia, Fla., 
to spend the winter. In March, 

1861, the sick leave having expired, 
he reported his health better, and 
able to go to the assistance of an- 
other surgeon, and accordingly he 
was ordered to Fort Pickens, Fla., 
garrisoned by seventy men all told. 
In May, 1861, after the re-en- 
forcement of Fort Pickens, he was 
ordered to Governor's Island, N. Y., 
where he remained till the 1st 
of August following, Ms health 
being still very poor. On that day 
he started from New Y^ork to go to 
his old home at Freeburg, Pa., but 
died soon after his arrival — Aug. 
6, 1861. 

1853. John Augustus Lamson: 
In 1862 was appointed surgeon of 
the Forty-second Regiment Massa- 
chusetts Volunteers, and went into 
camp, but resigned his position be- 
fore the regiment left for the seat 
of war, on account of impaired 
health. During the rest of that 
year he was under appointment as 
surgeon to examine volunteers. In 
July, 1863, he was appointed as- 
sistant examining surgeon under 
the conscription act, and in Sep- 
tember, 1863, was physician to the 
Discharged Soldiers' Home. 

1853. Valentine B. Oakes: En- 
listed in Minnesota Dec. 23, 1861, 
as a private in the regular army, 
Company B, Twelfth Infantry, 
afterwards a part of the First Bri- 
gade, Sykes' Division, Army of the 
Potomac; was promoted to ser- 
geant, but was killed, as is sup- 



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posed, June 27, 1862, in the battle 
of Gaines Mills before lliclniiond. 
A comrade wrote to his sister as 
follows, letter being dated July 5, 
1802 : " Your letter came for your 
brother by to-day's mail, but he was 
not here to receive it. On Friday 
of last week, June 27th, we were 
called up in line of battle to receive 
the enemy. They came on and we 
fought about two hours, when the 
enemy made a desperate charge on 
our right Hank, driving us back, 
and killing a great many; the men 
went in every direction. Your 
brother when last seen was across 
the Chickahominy, with a few 
others. The rebels were then charg- 
ing in that direction, but your 
brother said he would die before he 
gave up, and it is supposed he was 
there killed or taken prisoner. He 
has not been see'n or heard from 
since." That is the last known of 
him. 

1853. Moses Thurston Runnels: 
Was appointed in the spring of 
1864 as captain's clerk under Capt., 
afterwards U. S. Admiral, Theo. P. 
Greene, U. S. Navy, and served 
nearly four months in the East 
Gulf Squadron, chiefly on board 
the U. S. S. "San Jacinto," till 
sent home on account of yellow 
fever breaking out at Key West, 
Fla. Though participating in no 
naval engagements, he had his regu- 
larly assigned duties on board ship, 
drew his allotted share of prize- 
money for blockade runners cap- 
tured, was dressed in the United 
States naval uniform, and was hon- 
orably discharged. Died March 18, 
in02. 

1853. Nathaniel Lord Upham: 
In 1861-1862 was pastor of a church 
at Flemington, N. J., filling the 
place of the former pastor, who had 
gone to the front as chaplain. 
While there the Thirty-fifth New 
Jersey Veteran Volunteers was 
raised, of which he became the 
chaplain, and went with them to 
Washington, and from there to Cin- 



cinnati and Kentucky. The regi-- 
ment then went up the Tennessee 
River to Pittsburg Landing, and 
later from Union City, Tenn., to 
Vicksburg; then moved across the 
State to Meridian, Miss., in connec- 
tion with the Seventeenth Army 
Corps, Gen. Frank P. Blair com- 
manding. Returning from there, 
the regiment was in the Atlanta 
campaign and with Sherman on his 
march to the sea, being attached to 
the First Brigade, Second Division, 
Sixteenth Army Corps, Army of the 
Tennessee, under the command of 
General MePherson, and after his 
death under the command of Gen. 
0. O. Howard. Chaplain Upham 
writes that no regiment, to his 
knowledge, was called to pass 
through more vicissitudes, in eight 
months preparatory to the Atlanta 
movement, making and breaking 
camp in seven difi'erent States, be- 
sides crossing two on foot — Miss- 
issippi and Alabama, and Missis- 
sippi twice. The loss of the regi- 
ment was very hea\y at Resaca, 
Ga., while engaged in forcing Gen- 
eral Johnston back along the rail- 
road from Dal ton ; after which, 
with the exception of a brief delay 
at Kenesaw Mountain, in July and 
August, the regiment was practi- 
cally under fire to the September 
following, when the city was evacu- 
ated. 
1853. Edward Jessup Wood: 
Was commissioned as captain on 
the 25 th of November, 1861, hav- 
ing previously raised a company for 
the Fortj^-eighth Indiana Infantry, 
then rendezvousing at Goshen. 
The regiment left camp early in 
1862, and was stationed at Padu- 
cah, Ky., till the latter part of 
April, in post and garrison duty, 
during which time Captain Wood 
was provost marshal of the city. 
The regiment was present during 
the siege and evacuation of Corinth, 
Miss., by the rebels under Beaure- 
gard. Its mettle was first tested 
Sept. 19, 1862, at luka. Miss,, 



40 



DARTMOUTH EOLL OF HONOR 



where a single brigade withstood 
the attack of Price's whole army 
for nearly three hours, forcing 
them to withdraw under cover of 
night. It lost forty killed, and 
heavily in wounded, among the lat- 
ter Col. John B. Sanborn (a Dart- 
mouth student in 1862). The 
Forty-eighth also participated in 
the battle of Corinth Oct. 3 and 4, 

1862. A vacancy occurring, Cap- 
tain Wood received a commission 
as major Oct. 20, 1862. In Novem- 
ber the regiment formed a part of 
the expedition under General Grant, 
which started for the rear of Vicks- 
burg. Miss., by land, but Van 
Dorn's successful raid on Holly 
Springs caused the expedition to 
be abandoned at Granada, Miss. 
Concentrating near Memphis, Tenn., 
it was afterwards assigned to the 
Seventeenth Army Corps, under 
Major-General McPherson, and 
embarking March 1, 1863, from 
Memphis, it shared in the Yazoo 
Pass expedition, and finally made 
the march from Milliken's Bend, 
La., above Vicksburg, to a point op- 
posite Grand Gulf below, crossed 
the river, and was in all but one 
of the battles of that brief but 
glorious campaign, which termi- 
nated in the close investment and 
subsequent fall of Vicksburg. In 
April, 1863, Major Wood was ap- 
pointed to the lieutenant-colonelcy 
of the regiment, and in July, 1863, 
to the colonelcy. In September, 

1863, as a part of Gen. John E. 
Smith's division, was ordered up 
the river from Vicksburg to Helena, 
to support General Steele's ad- 
vance on Little Rock, and subse- 
quently as a part of General Sher- 
man's Fifteenth Army Corps, to 
march across the country to re-en- 
force our army at Chattanooga, 
Tenn., arriving in time to assist in 
that important campaign. In De- 
cember, 1863, he wrote to the sec- 
retary of his class that " the gal- 
lant few of the regiment that were 
left — only 200 being fit for duty 



— are ready to re-enlist as veteran 
volunteers." Died, 1873. 

1853. Charles Augustus Young: 
While professor in Western Reserve 
College, Hudson 0., having pre- 
viously drilled a company of stu- 
dents for eight months, he offered 
his services to Governor Tod. In 
June, 1862, he was elected and com- 
missioned cajDtain, and mustered in 
with his men as Company B, 
Eighty-fifth Ohio Volunteers, and 
assigned to State service, and was 
occujjied at Camp Chase, near Co- 
lumbus, till Aug. 26, 1862, guarding 
rebel prisoners, when they were de- 
tailed as escort to about twelve 
hundred who were paroled and sent 
to Vicksburg for exchange. This 
was a very long and unpleasant 
trip, running the gauntlet of gueril- 
las, though under a flag of truce, 
but the regiment arrived safely at 
camj) October 1, with a loss during 
the service of only two of its men. 
He was mustered out Oct. 5, 1862. 
After the dissolution of the regi- 
ment as a three months' organiza- 
tion, Captain Young was off'ered a 
commission as major in the regi- 
ment — which was re-organized for 
three years — but declined to accept 
it. 

1853. Eoscoe Lincoln Harlow, 
D.M.C. : Was commissioned Sept. 
20, 1862, assistant surgeon Twenty- 
fourth Regiment Maine Volunteers 
for nine months ; promoted to sur- 
geon Nov. 29, 1862; mustered out 
of service Aug. 25, 1863, by reason 
of expiration of term. His service 
was in the Department of the Gulf 
on the lower Mississippi. During 
his short military career he con- 
tracted disease from which he after' 
wards died, June 3, 1885. 

1853. Emery Glidden Judkins, 
D.M.C. : Was commissioned in No- 
vember, 1861, acting assistant sur- 
geon in the na^y and assigned to 
the ship "Morning Light"; re- 
signed in April, 1862. Died, June 
29, 1863. 

1853. Charles Clifford Smith, 
D.M.C: Was commissioned Aug. 



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28, 1SG2, first assistant surgeon 
Twenty-fourth Michigan Volun- 
teers ; was in the battle of Fred- 
ericksburg, Va.; mustered out Feb. 
8, 1SG3. Died April 17, 1890. 

1853. Non-Grad. Charles Sulli- 
van Blood: Was corporal of Com- 
pany A, Seventh Regiment, enrolled 
Missouri Militia, and served a short 
time in the Union service. 

1854. Henry McCobb Bacon: Was 
appointed hospital steward U. S. 
Army in December, 18G2, and as- 
signed to Columbia Hospital, Wash- 
ington, D. C, as quartermaster's 
steward. In May, 18G3, was or- 
dered to Douglass Hospital, in 
Washington, as commissary stew- 
ard. In August, 18G4, was ordered 
to the ofRce of the Medical Direc- 
tor's Department at Washington, 
and was mustered out from there, 
at the expiration of his term of 
service, December, 1865. Died Dec. 
7, 1899. 

1854. Joseph Clark: Was ap- 
pointed captain of Company A, 
Sixth Regiment New Hampshire 
Volunteers Nov. 30, 1861, and re- 
signed his commission April 14, 
1862. 

The regiment served during Cap- 
tain Clark's connection Avith it in 
Burnside's expedition to Roanoke 
Island. 

1854. George Anthony Collamore: 
Was commissioned Aug. 19, 1862, 
surgeon One Hundredth Regiment 
Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served 
in the field, in Kentucky, Tennessee, 
Georgia, and North Carolina, until 
July 3, 1865. He was at the siege 
of Knoxville, in the Atlanta cam- 
paign, and at the battles of Frank- 
lin and Nashville. He was trans- 
ferred to North Carolina, and was 
at the surrender of Gen. J. E. John- 
ston. The regiment was in the 
First Brigade, Third Division, 
Twenty-third Army Corps. At the 
close of the war he was surgeon of 
the division. 

1854. Hiram Benjamin Crosby: 
Enlisted Aug. 23, 1862, in Company 



C, Eighteenth Regiment Connecticut 
Volunteers, and was transferred 
August 20 to the Twenty-first Regi- 
ment Connecticut Volunteers, and 
commissioned lieutenant and ad- 
jutant the same day ; promoted to 
major Sept. 3, 1802; lieutenant- 
colonel June 8, 1864; colonel, June 
28, 1864. 

The regiment was attached to the 
Ninth Army Corps and Colonel 
Crosby served for a time on the 
staff of Gen. 0. B. Wilcox. 

Colonel Crosby won reputation 
as a military engineer and was oc- 
cupied as such during the fall of 
1863 in the reconstruction of the 
fortifications at Newbern and Lit- 
tle Washington, N. C. He rejoined 
his regiment in the spring of 1864, 
and served with it in the Army of 
the James until his discharge on the 
14th of September, 18G4. 
1854. John Eaton: Was appointed 
chaplain of the Twenty-seventh 
Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and in the 
autumn of 1861 he was taken pris- 
oner at Lexington, Mo. When our 
troops retired from Springfield, 
Mo., he volunteered to stay behind 
with Col., afterwards Maj.-Gen., 
J. W. Fuller, of Toledo, 0., who 
was sick and expected to die; be- 
coming again a prisoner in the 
Confederate lines, and while there 
was called upon to preach to Con- 
federate soldiers. The colonel, how- 
ever, recovered, and they were both 
allowed to reach the Union lines at 
Rolla in safety. In 1862 he became 
brigade sanitary inspector. He was 
appointed by General Grant, Nov. 
11, 1862, to be superintendent of 
the colored people, Avho came into 
his lines by thousands and tens of 
thousands in Northern Alabama, 
Western Tennessee, and Northern 
Mississippi. His supervision ex- 
tended with the operations of the 
Army of the Tennessee from Cairo 
to the mouth of the Red River and 
up the Arkansas to Fort Smith, 
and came to embrace also the care 
of the thousands of white refugees 



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DAETMOUTH EOLL OF HONOE 



that flocked to the Federal lines, and 
who were furnished food, clothing, 
and medicines, and sent to places of 
safety. He had an office and force 
of assistants at each military post. 
Under his administration the col- 
ored people were, as far as possible, 
made self-supporting, and all pos- 
sible forms of industry were devised 
for them. They were cooks, nurses 
in the hospitals, laborers in the 
army; and thousands of cabins 
were built, wood cut, cotton, corn, 
and vegetables raised. Marriage 
obligations were enforced, schools 
were established, in which benevo- 
lent teachers from the North did 
great service. These schools be- 
came largely self-supporting. His 
camps, it is estimated, furnished 
over 70,000 colored soldiers. Gen- 
eral Grant, in his personal memoirs, 
refers to this service of Chaplain 
Eaton as follows: "It was at this 
point, probably, Avhere the first idea 
of a Freedmen's Bureau took its 
origin. Orders of the government 
prohibited the expulsion of the 
negroes from the protection of the 
army when they came in volun- 
tarily. Humanity forbade allowing 
them to starve. . . . The planta- 
tions were all deserted; the cotton 
and corn were ripe ; men, women, 
and children above ten years of age 
could be employed in saving these 
crops. To do this work with contra- 
bands, or to have it done, organi- 
zation under a competent chief was 
necessary. On inquiring for such 
a man, Chaplain Eaton, now and for 
many years the very able United 
States Commissioner of Education, 
was suggested. He proved as effi- 
cient in that field as he has since 
done in his present one." Oct. 9, 
1863, he was mustered out as chap- 
lain of the Twenty-seventh Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry; Oct. 10, 1863, 
he was mustered in as colonel of the 
Sixty-third United States Colored 
Infantry. Was appointed brigadier- 
general by brevet IMarch 13, 1865; 
and May 27, 1865, assistant commis- 



sioner of the Freedmen's Bureau, 
and ordered to Washington, D. C. 
He was mustered out and honorably 
discharged from the service Dec. 
20, 1805. 

1854. Simeoii Dow Farnsworth: 
Was appointed from New Hamp- 
shire additional paymaster United 
States Volunteers, with rank of 
major, Nov. 26, 1862. Resigned 
April 26, 1864. He died at Prairie 
du Chien, Wis., March 6, 1868. 

1854. Daniel Hall: Was appointed 
in March, 1862, captain and aide- 
de-camp in U. S. Army on the staff 
of Gen. J. C. Fremont; after Gen- 
eral Fremont's removal from com- 
mand, he was transferred to the 
staff of Gen. A. W. Whipple, com- 
manding the military defences of 
Arlington Heights. In September, 
General 'Whipple joined the Army 
of the Potomac. During the Antie- 
tam campaign Captain Hall served 
with General Whipple, commanding 
the Third Division, Third Army 
Corps, Army of the Potomac, and 
participated in the campaigns of 
Fredericksburg and Chancellors- 
ville. General Whipple being killed 
at Chancellorsville, Captain Hall 
was then transferred to the staff 
of Gen. 0. 0. Howard, commanding 
the Eleventh Army Corps, and was 
with him in the campaign and bat- 
tle of Gettysburg. He served in 
various staff capacities until the 
winter of 1863, and in 1864 was 
appointed provost marshal of the 
First District of New Hampshire, 
and continued as such till the end 
of the war, enlisting 4000 men in 
the army and navy. He was 
slightly wounded at Gettysburg. 

1854. Franklin Aretas Haskell: 
Was appointed, June 20, 1861, adju- 
tant of the Sixth Regiment Wiscon- 
sin Volunteers. Tliis regiment was 
a part of the famous Iron Brigade 
of the Army of the Potomac. Lieu- 
tenant Haskell was connected with 
this organization, or served as aide 
to Gen. John Gibbon, until Febru- 
ary, 1864, when he was commis- 



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43 



sioned colonel of the Thirty-sixth 
Wisconsin Regiment, which was as- 
signed to General Hancock's corps. 
The regiment joined the Army of 
the Potomac a short time before 
General Grant advanced on Rich- 
mond in ^lay, 1804. In the bloody 
battle of Cold Harbor, June 3, 186-1, 
Colonel Haskell was killed while 
fighting at the head of his regiment. 
None of the graduates of Dart- 
mouth who served in the Union 
Army had a more splendid record 
than Colonel Haskell. The Iron 
Brigade was one of the best known 
organizations in the army, and 
had for commanders such soldiers 
as General Gibbon and General 
Bragg. While connected with this 
brigade, or on the staffs of various 
generals, Lieutenant Haskell partici- 
pated in all the battles in which 
the Army of the Potomac was en- 
gaged imtil his promotion. It was 
at Gettysburg, however, that he 
showed sucli conspicuous gallantry 
as to merit the highest encomiums 
from Generals Hancock and Gibbon. 
In General Hancock's official report 
of the battle he says : " I desire par- 
ticularly to refer to the services 
of a gallant young officer, First 
Lieut. F. A. Haskell, aide-de-camp 
to Brigadier-General Gibbon, who, 
at a critical period of the battle 
when the contending forces vt'ere 
but fifty or sixty yards apart, believ- 
ing that an example was necessary, 
and ready to sacrifice his life, rode 
between the contending lines with 
the view to giving encouragement 
to ours, and led it forward, he 
being at that moment the only 
mounted officer in a similar posi- 
tion. He was slightly woimded and 
his horse was shot in several 
places." 

General Gibbon says in his report : 
" I desire to call particular atten- 
tion to the manner in which several 
of the subordinate reports mention 
the services of my gallant aide, 
Lieut. F. A. Haskell, and to add 
my testimony to his valuable ser- 



vices. It has always been a source 
of regret to me that our military 
system offers no plan for reward- 
ing his merits and services as they 
deserve." In a private letter to 
the compiler of this sketch dated 
Oct. 2G, 1894, General Gibbon says: 
" Haskell was a magnificent soldier 
whose career was a very jjromising 
one, and he would undoubtedly have 
risen to higher rank, I think, but 
for his death. He served on my 
staff for over a year; was with 
me at Gettysburg, and in my opin- 
ion had more to do with the re- 
pulse of Pickett's charge than any 
other one man in our army." y>^ 

After the battle of Gettysburg '"/^ 
Haskell wrote his brother a very 
full account of the battle, v/hich is 
as graphic and thrilling as anything 
that has been published. 

Some of his sentences show that 
General Gibbon's estimate of his 
services was correct, and that he 
well deserved the promotion that 
soon came to him. 

A brief quotation will suffice to 
show how fully he appreciated the 
situation at the crucial hour, and 
rose to the occasion. The time was 
during Pickett's famous assault, and 
when Webb's brigade seemed to be 
wavering : 

" The larger portion of Webb's 
brigade, there by the group of trees 
and the angles of the wall, was 
breaking from the cover of their 
works, and without orders or rea- 
son, with no hand lifted to check 
them, was falling back, a fear- 
stricken flock of confusion ! The 
fate of Gettysburg hung upon a 
spider's single thread! 

" A great, magnificent passion 
came on me at the instant, — not 
one that overpowers and confounds, 
but one that blanches the face and 
sublimes every sense and faculty. 
My sword, that had always hung 
idle by my side, the sign of rank 
only, in every battle, I drew, bright 
and gleaming, — the signal of com- 
mand. All rules and proprieties 



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were forgotten; all considerations 
of person and danger and safety 
despised. I ordered these men to 
halt and face about and fire, and 
they heard my voice and gathered 
my meaning and obeyed my com- 
mand." 
1854. Rufus Osgood Mason: Was 
appointed acting assistant surgeon 
U. S. Navy Oct. 21, 1861, and re- 
ported to Commander Samuel L. 
Breese, Brooklyn navy yard, Oct. 
25, 1861. He was ordered to 
U. S. S. "Santiago de Cuba" 
Oct. 28, 1861; was detached; ship 
went out of service about Jan. 15, 
1864. He resigned Feb. 3, 1864. 
He kept a journal throughout, which 
he now has. Dr. Mason was the 
only medical officer serving on 
board the " Santiago de Cuba " dur- 
ing the entire time she was in com- 
mission, and the service was a very 
active and often arduous one, the 
vessel being nearly always on de- 
tached and special duty in tlie Gulf 
of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, amongst 
the Bahamas and West India Is- 
lands, and cruising in the Atlantic 
north of these islands. The vessel 
sailed from New York Nov. 11, 
1861, under sealed orders, with 
Commander D. B. Ridgely in com- 
mand. Her orders took her first to 
Havana, and then into the Gulf of 
Mexico, where, Dec. 7, 1861, were 
captured the Confederate agents, 
Zacliery and Rogers. They were on 
board a vessel flying the English 
flag, disguised as sailors ; but, being 
recognized by some of the officers, 
they were permitted to change their 
clothing, and were then taken on 
board the " Santiago de Cuba." 
Rogers was so profane and abusive 
that it was necessary to put him in 
irons; Zaehery was collapsed with 
fear. A search resulted in finding 
a large amount of Confederate bonds 
and money and memoranda of ar- 
mies and army stores to be pur- 
chased, pilot-charts for Confederate 
ports to which they were to be 
taken, and the names of the vessels 



to be employed, one of which, the 
" Victory," had been already cap- 
tured, and a prize crew was taking 
her into port. The prisoners were 
taken in irons and delivered over to 
the commander of the fort. At this 
time the merchant marine was 
greatly disturbed by the depreda- 
tions of the formidable Confederate 
cruiser " 290," afterwards known 
as the " Alabama." The orders 
were to search for this vessel, and, 
if found, to engage and capture or 
destroy her. For nearly six months 
while on this duty, the " Santiago " 
met the outward bound California 
steamers from New York at Mari- 
guana, near the Northern limit of 
the Bahamas, and convoyed them 
through the narrow passages 
amongst these islands, where the 
Confederate cruisers might lie in 
wait and easily capture or destroy 
them. At one time the " Santiago " 
was ordered to report to Admiral 
Farragut at Ship Island, to join 
the expedition against New Orleans, 
but before the expedition sailed was 
sent on other duty, just missing 
that brilliant and important enter- 
prise. While the " Santiago de 
Cuba " was in commission she cap- 
tured nine vessels. Tlie incidents 
connected with the capture of some 
of these vessels were very amusing 
and interesting. April 23, 1862, the 
" Santiago de Cuba " had an ex- 
citing though fruitless chase, the 
hope being nothing less than to 
capture the Confederate gunboat 
" Nashville." She was cruising in 
the Atlantic far off the Carolina 
coast, when a steamer was made out 
away to the north and west. At 
first she came down to look the 
Federals over, to see if the " San- 
tiago de Cuba " might be one of the 
California steamers, and a handsome 
prize for her; but on making out 
the vessels she lost no tiriie in chang- 
ing her course and showing her heels 
with all possible speed. The " San- 
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most exciting race. She was soon 
seen sending down her topmasts, and 
clearing away everything that could 
mar her speed ; the " Santiago de 
Cuba " did the same, and every- 
thing that could make hotter fires 
was used without stint. It was 
afterwards learned that the " Nash- 
ville" tore up her bulkheads and 
cabin woodwork to increase the 
speed ; and the firemen on the " San- 
tiago de Cuba " put in the pork, or 
whatever would best serve. In this 
case the labor was fruitless. The 
ship had already been too long with- 
out being overhauled and repaired, 
and it was impossible for her to 
obtain the necessary speed; and as 
evening came on the enemy grad- 
ually drew away and disappeared. 
It was some consolation, however, to 
capture, that same evening, a 
schooner with 100 bales of cotton 
aboard, and two days later the 
" Ella Warley." 

1854. Reuben Delevan Mussey: 
Was commissioned captain U. S. 
Army in June, 1861, and served in 
Kentucky under Generals Anderson, 
Buell, Rosecrans, and Thomas. He 
was the first regular officer to offer 
his services in connection with the 
raising of colored troops, and was 
promoted to the colonelcy of the One 
Hundredth United States Colored 
Troops in June, 18G4; became mili- 
tary secretary to President John- 
son April, 1805, which position he 
held till October of that year. 

In December, 1805, he resigned 
both of his commissions, being a 
breA'et colonel in the regular, and 
brigadier-general in the volunteer, 
service. General Mussey was in- 
strumental in raising about ten 
thousand colored troops at Nash- 
ville, Tenn. While in the field he 
distinguished himself as a brave 
and competent officer. Died May 29, 
1802. 

1854. Baxter Perry Smith: En- 
listed in Company F, Ninth Regi- 
ment New Hampshire Volunteers, 
and mustered into the United States 



service Aug. 12, 1802. The regi- 
ment reached Washington, D. C., 
Aug. 27, 1802. Sept. 14, 1862, he 
was in the battle of South Moun- 
tain, and September 17 at Antie- 
tam. Was detailed for hospital ser- 
vice soon after, and was discharged 
at Falmouth, Va., Feb. 6, 1863, by 
reason of disability. Died at Wash- 
ington, D. C, Feb. G, 1884. 

1854. Bela Nettleton Stevens: 
Was acting assistant surgeon U. 
S. Army, and was employed in the 
hospitals in Washin^on, D. C, 
until his death May 5, 1805. 

1854. Charles Chester Beckley, 
D.M.C. : Was commissioned Oct. 1, 
1803, as assistant surgeon Fourth 
New Hampshire Regiment, and was 
mustered out March 20, 1804. He 
was stationed at General Hospital 
No. 10, Beaufort, S. C. Died at 
Plainfield, N. H., Feb. 18, 1886. 

1854. Andrew James Hale Buz- 
zell, D.M.C. : Was appointed assist- 
ant surgeon Third New Hampshire 
Volunteers July 29, 1802; promoted 
to surgeon Nov. 17, 1802; brevetted 
lieutenant-colonel United States 
Volunteers for gallant and merito- 
rious conduct at the storming of 
Fort Fisher, N, C, to date from 
March 13, 1865; died March 28, 
1805, at Wilmington, N. C. 

1854. Andrew Jackson Huntoon, 
D.M.C: Enlisted Aug. 22, 1802, in 
Company E, Twelfth Regiment 
New Hampshire Volunteers; com- 
missioned second lieutenant Sept. 
8, 1862; first lieutenant Company 
A, Feb. 9, 1863; captain Company 
D, Feb. 1, 1864. Wounded May 3, 
1863, at Chancellorsville, Va.; dis- 
charged on account of wounds June 
15, 1864, Cobbs Hill, Va. 

The Twelfth New Hampshire saw 
very severe service. It was con- 
nected with the Twelfth, Third, 
Eighteenth, and Twenty-fourth 
Army Corps, and was in the bat- 
tles of Fredericksburg, Chancellors- 
ville, Gettysburg, Cold Harbor, siege 
of Petersburg, and was at the occu- 
pation of Richmond April 3, 1805. 



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1854. Yorick Gordon Hurd, 
D.M.C.: Was commissioned surgeon 
of the Forty-eighth Regiment 
Massachusetts Volunteers Dec. 8, 
18G2. This was a nine months' 
regiment and served in the Depart- 
ment of the Gulf under General 
Butler; mustered out Sept. 3, 18G3, 
by reason of expiration of term of 
service; was in the battles of Plains 
Store, Donaldsville, siege of Port 
Hudson. He is said to have been 
the best equipped regimental sur- 
geon in his division. Died Sept. 24, 
1SS8. 

1854. Non-Grad. Samuel Oli- 
ver Burnham: Enlisted May 9, 
1861, in Company C, Second New 
Hampshire Infantry; commissioned 
second lieutenant June 4, 1861; 
wounded severely May 5, 1862, at 
Williamsburg, Va. ; commissioned 
captain Company K, Aug. 5, 1862; 
discharged June 17, 1863; appointed 
first lieutenant Eleventh Regiment 
Veteran Reserve Corps June 1-5, 
1863; mustered in June 18, 1863; 
transferred to Eighth Regiment 
Veteran Reserve Corps May, 1864; 
promoted captain Feb. 21, 1865, but 
did not accept promotion. Paid as 
first lieutenant to March 31, 186.5. 

1854. Non-Grad. John Worth- 
ington Dewey: Captain of Com- 
pany C, Second Regiment Berdan's 
United States Sharpshooters, com- 
missioned in October, 1861; hon- 
orably discharged Feb. 20, 1863. 
This regiment was composed of 
eight companies from five different 
States, Company C being from Penn- 
sylvania. The regiment was raised 
imder authority from the Secretary 
of War to Colonel Berdan to " mus- 
ter and organize into companies and 
regiments all the men he could 
raise during the next ninety days, 
from Sept. 28, 1861, and who, on 
examination, were found equal to 
the requirements of sharpshooters." 
Berdan's Sharpshooters were in 
nearly all the battles of the Army 
of the Potomac from date of muster 
until the surrender at Appomattox, 



but seldom, if ever, did duty as 
regimental organizations, being at- 
tached to dillerent brigades as 
sharpshooters. 
1855. William Henry Harrison 
Allen: W^as appointed additional 
paymaster United States Volun- 
teers, with rank of major, by Presi- 
dent Lincoln, Sept. 22, 1863, and 
was stationed at Washington, D. C, 
until May 30, 1865, during which 
time he was assigned to the Third 
Brigade, Second Division, Sixth 
Corps, Army of the Potomac, and 
also the New Hampshire Heavy Ar- 
tillery, posted in the forts around 
Washington. May 30, 1865, he was 
ordered to Philadelphia to pay dis- 
charged soldiers and remained there 
until Dec. 31, 1865, when he was 
mustered out of the service at his 
own request. He was constantly on 
duty from the time of entering to 
leaving the service. Died April 26, 
1893, in New York City. 

1855. John Richards Baker: 
Enlisted in 1862 as orderly ser- 
geant Forty-eighth jNIassachusetts 
Volunteers. Was with the Banks 
Expedition in Louisiana and at the 
siege of Port Hudson during the 
spring and summer of 1863, and 
was discharged by expiration of 
service September, 1863, having 
been promoted to lieutenant. Died 
Jan. 30, 1894. 

1855. Ira Norton Barnes: Was 
appointed surgeon of tlie One Hun- 
dred and Sixteenth Regiment Illi- 
nois Volunteer Infantry April 23, 
1863, and joined his regiment, which 
had been assigned to the First Bri- 
gade, Second Division, Fifteenth 
Army Corps, commanded by Gen. 
W. T. Sherman. He was at the bat- 
tles of Champion Hills, Big Black 
River Bridge, and the bloody charges 
at Vicksburg May 19 and 22, 1863, 
where his regiment sufTered a great 
loss in killed and wounded. After 
the surrender of Vicksburg he went 
with his command to Jackson, 
Miss., and was in the variovis en- 
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returning to Camp Sherman, near 
Big Black River Bridge, Miss., he 
was appointed brigade surgeon. In 
October he embarked with Sher- 
man's army at Vicksburg for Mem- 
phis, and from tliere marched via 
Corintli, Miss., to Chattanooga, 
Tenn., where he arrived on the 21st 
of November. After the battle of 
Chattanooga his regiment hastened 
to the relief of General Burnside's 
army at Knoxville, and then re- 
turned to winter quarters Jan. 9, 
1864, at Larkinsville, Ala. Feb. 
24, 1864, he was appointed surgeon- 
in-chief of the Second Division, Fif- 
teenth Army Corps, on the staff of 
Morgan L. Smith. May 1, 1864, he 
started with the Army of the Ten- 
nessee for Resaca and Dallas, Ga., 
and May 26 was appointed on the 
operating corps of the Division 
Field Hospital, and served in that 
capacity at the battles of Big 
Shanty, Kenesaw Mountain, At- 
lanta, Ezra Chapel, and Jonesboro, 
Ga. 

He was with Sherman's army on 
its march to the sea, and was at 
the storming of Fort McAllister, 
Ga., Dec. 13, 1864. From Savannah 
he went by water to Beaufort, N. C, 
thence to Poeotaligo, and was at 
the burning of Columbia, S. C, in 
February. His regiment engaged in 
its last battle at Bentonville, N. C, 
in March, 1865. From Goldsboro, 
N. C, he marched via Raleigh and 
Richmond to Alexander, Va., par- 
ticipated in the grand review at 
Washington, D. C, in May, and was 
mustered out near the same place 
June 7, 1865. His regiment was 
never on detached service, but al- 
ways moved with the Fifteenth 
Army Corps, and its history is iden- 
tified with that of the Army of the 
Tennessee from Memphis, in 1862, to 
Washington, D. C, in .June, 1865. 
1855. Samuel Robert Bond: En- 
listed in the First Minnesota Regi- 
ment, which was called out for three 
months. The regiment was not 
mustered in for three months, but 



for three years or during the war. 
Mr. Bond went with a special expe- 
dition, sent by the War Depart- 
ment, among the Indians and across 
the plains in 1862, and wrote a 
journal of the expedition, which was 
published by congress among the 
war documents. 

1855. Stephen Sergeant Morrill: 
Was commissioned June 5, 1862, by 
President Lincoln as hospital chap- 
lain in the U. S. Army, and sta- 
tioned at Mound City, 111. He re- 
signed March, 1865, by reason of 
impaired health. Died May 2, 1878. 

1855. David Quigg: Was mus- 
tered into the United States service 
as second lieutenant in the Fourth 
Illinois Cavalry in the fall of 1861, 
and served in that regiment until 
the summer of 1862, when he was 
appointed major of the Fourteenth 
Illinois Cavalry, and in May, 1865, 
he was promoted to colonel in the 
same regiment. He was captured on 
the " Stoneman raid " in August, 
1864; was exchanged March, 1865, 
and mustered out of service July 
31, 1865. 

1855. Simon Rufus Marston, 
C.S.D.: Enlisted Aug. 20, 1862, as 
private Tenth New Hampshire Vol- 
unteers; promoted second lieuten- 
ant of Company G, Tenth Ne~vv 
Hampshire Volunteers, Sept. 18, 
1862. November 26, 1862, he was 
appointed additional paymaster 
United States Vokmteers, with the 
rank of major. During the short 
time he was in the Tenth New 
Hampshire he was in the battle of 
Fredericksburg Dec. 13, 1862, and 
the various skirmishes on the route 
thereto. During his services as 
paymaster he was always at the 
front and on the frontier. On the 
10th of September. 1864. ho was 
detached from the pay district of 
the Mississippi and ordered to re- 
ceive $600,000 and proceed with 
same to Santa F6, New IMexico, 
turning the money over to the 
chief paymaster of New Mexico on 
his arrival. As the entire route was 



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practically in the enemy's country 
the undertaking was extremely 
hazardous, and the order detailing 
him for this duty was considered 
very complimentary, as it set forth 
the peculiar qualifications neces- 
sary to the execution of its instruc- 
tions. He was mustered out of the 
service June 30, 1866. Brevetted 
lieutenant-colonel United States 
Volunteers to date March 12, 1866. 

1855. Sidney Leroy Smith, C.S.D: 
Entered the U. S. Na-vy October, 
1861; sailed from Portsmouth, 
N. H., in 1862, in the steam sloop 
" Kearsarge," and was on board of 
her when she encountered the " Ala- 
bama " off Cherbourg, France, and 
sunk her. His rank was that of 
third assistant engineer. In 1866 
he was second assistant engineer at 
Annapolis, Md. 

1855. Gates Bezaled Bullard, 
D.M.C.: Was commissioned assist- 
ant surgeon Fifteenth Regiment 
Vermont Volunteers Oct. 2, 1862; 
promoted to surgeon May 4, 1863 ; 
mustered out Aug. 5, 1863, by reason 
of expiration of term of service. 
This regiment was commanded by 
Redfield Proctor (Dart. Coll. 1851), 
who was afterwards Secretary of 
War in Pres. Benj. Harrison's cabi- 
net. It was a part of the Second 
Vermont Brigade, and served in the 
Department of Washington under 
Generals Casey and Abercrombie. 
The brigade was commanded by 
Grenerals Stoughton and Stannard, 
and did duty along the line of the 
Orange and Alexandria Railroad, 
and was in the battle of Gettys- 
burg during a portion of the second 
day's fight. Surgeon Bullard was 
with the regiment during the whole 
of its service, and was a very effi- 
cient and popular officer. Died 
Sept. 4, 1901. 

1855. William Jackson Sawin, 
D.M.C.: Enlisted in the Tenth 
Massachusetts Regiment, Sept. 7, 
1861. Transferred to Company E, 
Third Vermont Regiment; pro- 
moted to assistant surgeon Second 



Vermont Regiment June 21, 1862; 
wounded and taken prisoner at the 
battle of Savage's Station June 29, 
1862; paroled July 22; promoted 
surgeon Dec. 18, 1862; mustered out 
June 29, 1864, at the expiration of 
three years of service. Surgeon 
Sawin bore an excellent reputation 
as a successful operator. Died Dec. 
3, 1877. 

1855. Non-Grad. Edward Henry 
Chase: Served as a private in Com 
pany C, Eighth Pennsylvania Vol 
unteers, organized April 22, 1861 
under the first call for volunteers 
It served in the Shenandoah cam 
paign under Gen. Robert Patterson 
and was mustered out of service 
Aug. 29, 1861. 

1856. Henry Foster Anderson: 
Enlisted in 1862 as second sergeant 
of Company B, Seventh Squadron, 
Third Regiment of Rhode Island 
Cavalry, which was commanded by 
John L. Thompson of the same class. 
The squadron was in service about 
four months ; was captured at Har- 
per's Ferry at the time of the first 
skirmish by General Lee, but cut 
its way through the lines and made 
its escape. Died April 24, 1887. 

1856. George Washington Bart- 
lett: Was commissioned first lieu- 
tenant and adjutant of the Twenty- 
seventh Massachusetts Infantry 
Sept. 25, 1861; was promoted to 
captain May 2, 1863, and resigned 
Sept. 12, 1864. During a portion 
of his service he acted as provost 
marshal of Beaufort, N. C., and 
was judge advocate at Newbern; 
was engaged in the battles of 
Roanoke Island, Newbern, Kinston, 
Whitehall, Goldsboro, and siege of 
Petersburg. He was fearless upon 
the field of battle, and his war rec- 
ord throughout proved him to be a 
brave soldier, honored and respected 
by his brother officers, and the men 
under his command. Died Feb. 4, 
1873. 

1856. Charles Peter Clark: Was 
appointed from Massachusetts act- 
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3, 18G2; acting master, July 18, 
1863; acting volunteer lieutenant, 
on account of highly meritorious 
services, Aug. 9, 18G4; was honor- 
ably discharged Nov. 20, 1865. In 
1862 he was on duty in West India 
Squadron; in 1SG3, in East Gulf 
Blockading Squadron; in 1804, in 
the Mississippi Squadron. Died at 
Nice, France, March 21, 1901. 

1856. Amos Noyes Currier: En- 
tered the army Aug. 31, 1861, as a 
private in Company C, Eighth Iowa 
Infantry, and participated in the 
Fremont campaign to Springfield, 
Mo. In November, 1861, he was 
in VV. H. L. Wallace's command at 
Shiloh, and was taken prisoner 
April 6, 1862. In June of the same 
year he was paroled at Macon, Ga., 
and sent north by way of Chatta- 
nooga and Huntsville. After serv- 
ing a year as a paroled prisoner at 
Benton Barracks, St. Louis, he was 
exchanged, and in December, 1863, 
was commissioned as first lieutenant 
and commissary, and served in this 
capacity under Gen. Fred Steele, in 
Arkansas, until January, 1865. 
This last service was largely in gar- 
rison, with nothing more serious 
than light skirmishes. While in 
the Eleventh Missouri he was of- 
fered a commission as captain of 
Company A, First Regiment Michi- 
gan Volunteers (colored), but did 
not accept the commission. He was 
mustered out in January, 1865. 

1856. James Edwin Johnson: 
Enlisted early in the war in an 
Illinois regiment for three months, 
and afterwards for three years. 
Served in the field in Missouri, 
Kansas, and Alabama. Was a long 
time sick in an army hospital, and 
finally discharged on accoimt of 
sickness. Died Nov. 11, 1878. 

1856. John Kimball: After serving 
over two years with the Christian 
Commission, he was appointed, in 
1864, chaplain of Garver Hospital, 
in Washington, D. C, where he re- 
mained until July, 1865, when he 
was mustered out of the service. 



Was afterwards appointed superin- 
tendent of schools in the Freedmen's 
Bureau, on the staff of Gen. John 
Eaton, then with Gen. Charles 
Howard. His service was in Vir- 
ginia, Delaware, Maryland, and 
West Virginia, and he continued 
with this Department until Novem- 
ber, 1869, when he resigned. Died 
July 2, 1897. 

1856. Almond Orlando Leavitt: 
Was appointed assistant surgeon in 
the U. S. Navy from New Hamp- 
shire July 19, 1861. His last active 
service was in that year, and he 
was placed on the retired list June 
4, 1862, on account of sickness, 
and has been on that list since that 
time. 

1856. Francis Brown Lord: En- 
tered the service in the fall of 

1861, in the Fifty-sixth Regiment 
Indiana Volunteers, otherwise called 
the "Railroad Regiment;" was 
commissioned as major in this regi- 
ment, and, the regiment being con- 
solidated with another, he retired 
in favor of the major of this last 
regiment. At the time of the Mor- 
gan raid in 1863 he was commis- 
sioned as major and aide-de-camp on 
Gov. 0. P. Morton's staff, and saw 
active service at that time, his com- 
mission ending with the raid. Died 
Feb. 10, 1873^ 

1856. William Bostwick Parsons: 
Was appointed battalion adjutant 
Second Kansas Cavalry Dec. 3, 
1861; was mustered out Dec. 22, 

1862, the office having been abol- 
ished by congress; was afterwards 
employed as clerk in the office of the 
surgeon general at Washington, 
D. C, and was detailed at Maj.- 
Gen. George G. Meade's headquar- 
ters, where he remained until the 
close of the war. Died Jan. 31, 
1885. 

1856. John Alvin Putney: At the 
breaking out of the war, was prac- 
tising law at Memphis, Tenn. His 
law partner entered the Confederate 
army and afterwards became a gen- 
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and there assisted in raising the 
first Union regiment in that State; 
while there, was appointed post 
quartermaster, and held that posi- 
tion until the close of the war. 
Died May 21, 18G5. 

1856. Levi Parsons Sabin: En- 
listed in 18G4 as a private soldier in 
the First Wisconsin Heavy Artil- 
lery, where he remained until May, 
1865, when, after five months of 
service, he had a severe attack of 
rheumatism and was discharged 
from the service. Died Nov. 10, 
1873. 

1856. Benjamin Silliman Church, 
C.S.D. : Early in 1861 was appointed 
captain of engineers in the Twelfth 
New York Regiment; at the first 
advance of the Army of the Poto- 
mac, commanded the skirmish line. 
He is said to have made the first 
military maps in the enemy's coun- 
try, and was the first prisoner cap- 
tured while on this duty. He es- 
caped soon after, and was then de- 
tailed to the U. S. Topographical 
Corps, where he served during the 
summer campaigns of 1861 and 
1863. In the latter year he was 
obliged to resign his commission on 
account of ill health, caused by ex- 
posure. 

1856. Samuel Thompson Durkee, 
C.S.D. : In September, 1861, en- 
listed in Battery G, Second Illinois 
Light Artillery; promoted second 
lieutenant January, 1862 ; was in 
the battle of Union City March, 
1862; commanded the battery in the 
action at Coff"erville, Miss., in the 
fall of 1862 ; served under Gen. 
U. S. Grant in his attempt to reach 
Vicksburg via Holly Springs. His 
service was at Hickman, Ky., and 
afterwards in Tennessee. Died July 
13, 1896. 

1856. Jacob Sharpe, C.S.D. : Before 
entering Dartmouth College he was 
a cadet in the United States Mili- 
tary Academy at West Point from 
1852 to 1855; was appointed 
second lieutenant Forty-first In- 
fantry, but declined. April 23, 



1861, he was appointed first lieu- 
tenant Twentieth New York State 
Militia, and mustered out Aug. 2, 
1861. On the 28th of June, 1862, 
was appointed major Fifty-sixth 
New York Infantry, on the 13th 
day of September, 1862, was pro- 
moted to lieutenant-colonel, and on 
the 28th day of March, 1863, col- 
onel of the One Hundred and Fifty- 
sixth New York Infantry, and mus- 
tered out Oct. 23, 1865. Brevetted 
brigadier-general of United States 
Volunteers March 13, 1865, for 
" gallant and meritorious services 
at the battle of Winchester, Va.," 
where he was shot through the body. 
Served in the defences of Wash- 
ington, D. C, in the Fourth Corps, 
Army of the Potomac, Nineteenth 
Corps, Department of the Gulf and 
Army of the Shenandoah, and also 
in the Department of Georgia. 
From 1880 to 1890 he was governor 
of the National Home for Disabled 
Volunteer Soldiers at Milwaukee, 
Wis. Died April 27, 1892. 

1856. Albert Wood, C.S.D.: Was 
appointed assistant surgeon Twenty- 
ninth Regiment Massachusetts Vol- 
unteers July 7, 1862, serving in that 
capacity until Aug. 7, 1863. when he 
was appointed surgeon of the First 
Massachusetts Cavalry, and served 
as such until Nov. 30, 1864, when 
he resigned; was appointed acting 
staff surgeon of the U. S. Army 
Jan. 1, 1865, and served in this 
capacity until the close of the war. 
His first service was in the Second 
Army Corps, next in the Ninth 
Army Corps, and afterwards in the 
Cavalry Corps of the Army of the 
Potomac ; was with the Ninth Corps 
during its campaigns in Mississippi, 
Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia. 

1856. Granville Priest Conn, 
D.M.C. : Was commissioned assist- 
ant surgeon Twelfth Regiment 
Vermont Volunteers Sept. 19, 1862, 
and was mustered out with the regi- 
ment at Brattleboro July 14, 1863. 
He was with the regiment during 
its entire term of service, and was 



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for a considerable period acting 
surgeon, the surgeon being acting 
brigade surgeon. Tlie Twelfth Ver- 
mont was a part of the Second Ver- 
mont Brigade, which served under 
Generals Stoughton and Stannard 
in the Department of Washington, 
and was assigned to the First Army 
Corps, just preceding the battle of 
Gettysburg. 

1856. Thaddeus Hildreth, D.M.C. : 
Was commissioned assistant sur- 
geon Third Maine Volunteers and 
joined the regiment at Alexandria, 
Va., Sept. 5, 1861; promoted to sur- 
geon Oct. 25, 1861. Was on active 
duty with the regiment till ap- 
pointed surgeon-in-chief of the First 
Division, Third Army Corps, Sept. 
21, 1863; was detailed Jan. 5, 1864, 
as surgeon-in-charge of the Division 
Hospital at Brandy Station, Va., 
and April 12, 1864, surgeon-in-chief 
of the Third Brigade, Third Divi- 
sion, Third Corps; on the 29th of 
April was appointed chief operator; 
was discharged with his regiment at 
the expiration of term of service, 
June 28, 1864. Died Aug. 18, 1880. 

1856. James Edwin Marsh, 
D.M.C. : Served as acting assistant 
surgeon U. S. Army 1862-1864. 
Was on duty in general hospitals 
in the Army of the Cumberland 
and Nashville, Tenn. Died July 7, 
1869. 

1856. Benjamin Newell Towle, 
D.M.C. : Was commissioned assist- 
ant surgeon Fifteenth Regiment 
New Hampshire Volunteers Oct. 
14, 1862, and mustered out Aug. 
13, 1863, by reason of expiration of 
term of service. The regiment 
served in the Department of the 
Gulf under Gen. N. P. Banks, and 
was a part of the Nineteenth Army 
Corps, and participated in the siege 
and capture of Port Hudson May 27 
to July 9, 1863. 

1856. Non-Grad. George Chand- 
ler: Was appointed, early in the 
war, second lieutenant in Company 
A, Eighty-eighth Regiment Illinois 
Volunteers, or Second Board of 



Trade Regiment; was in the battle 
of Perryville, Ky. ; had command of 
his company in the battles of Mur- 
freesboro. Stone River, and Chicka- 
mauga; after this battle he re- 
resigned his commission in conse- 
quence of sufl'ering from rheuma- 
tism. Lieutenant Chandler com- 
manded the guard that escorted the 
notorious Vallandigham through 
the Union lines into Dixie. 
1856. Non-Grad. James B. Gree- 
ley, D.M.C. : Assistant surgeon 
First Rhode Island Cavalry Dec. 3, 

1861. Promoted surgeon June 4, 

1862. Wounded in left arm and 
right thigh in action at Rapidan 
River Aug. 21, 1862. Honorably 
discharged Aug. 31, 1862. Died 
April 20, 1903. 

1856. Non-Grad. Edward Elisha 
Herrick: Was commissioned second 
lieutenant Company C, Fifteenth 
Regiment Vermont Volunteers Sept. 
11, 1862; promoted first lieutenant 
Company G, Jan. 9, 1863; mustered 
out Aug. 5, 1863, by reason of ex- 
piration of term of service. The 
regiment was a part of the Second 
Vermont Brigade, and did duty in 
the defences of Washington, and 
was in the battle of Gettysburg on 
the first day. 

1856. Non-Grad. Edwin Euthven 
Houston: Enlisted Sept. 8, 1862, 
as a private in Company A, Six- 
teenth Regiment New Hampshire 
Volunteers; served in the Depart- 
ment of the Gulf, and died of dis- 
ease at Brashear City, La., May 5, 
1863. 

Tlie Sixteenth Regiment was con- 
nected with the Nineteenth Army 
Corps during the entire term of 
service. 

1856. Non-Grad. Arthur Alwyn 
Putnam: A few days after the as- 
sault on Fort Sumter Mr. Putnam 
turned his law office into a recruit- 
ing office, and soon raised a com- 
pany, and was elected captain. May 
4, 1S61 ; and on the 22d day of June 
the company became Company I of 
the Fourteenth Regiment of Massa- 



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clmsetts Infantry and went into 
camp at Fort Warren, Boston Har- 
bor. July 5 the regiment was mus- 
tered into the service of the United 
States, and on August 7 left for 
Washington, and soon after was 
made a heavy artillery regiment, 
of Company K, Second Massachu- 
setts Heavy Artillery. About this 
time Captain Putnam retired from 
the army. In the fall of 1863 he 
Avas commissioned first lieutenant 
of Company K, Second Massachu- 
setts Heavy Artillery. On Jan. 8, 
I8G4, the regiment left Massachu- 
setts for Fort Norfolk, Va. ; and 
while not in any pitched battles was 
principally occupied in garrisoning 
forts along the Atlantic coast, and 
in fatiguing marches into the inte- 
rior to capture supplies. Captain 
Putnam served at Norfolk and 
Portsmouth, Va., and Plymouth, 
Newbern, and Wilmington, N. C. 
For several weeks of the summer 
of 186-1 he served as assistant pro- 
vost marshal of the District of 
North Carolina at Newbern. In the 
Spring of 1865 he was judge advo- 
cate at Plymouth. For the last 
eleven months of his service he was 
in command of Company E at New- 
bern, N. C. During six weeks of 
yellow fever epidemic he was one of 
the very few commissioned officers 
able to be on duty during the whole 
of the pestilence. The regiment re- 
turned home in September, 1865, and 
he was mustered out of the service 
on the 3d day of September. 
1856. Non-Grad. Jolm Leverett 
Thompson: Enlisted April 18, 
1861, in Company A, First Illinois 
Light Artillery, and served three 
months at or near Cairo, where he 
was mustered out. Oct. 18, 1861, he 
was commissioned, by Gov. N. S. 
Berry, first lieutenant in Company 
K of a battalion of cavalry raised 
from the First New Hampshire Regi- 
ment and afterwards becoming a 
part of the First Rhode Island 
Cavalry. In the spring of 1862 the 
regiment went to Washington and 



was under General McDowell at 
Fredericksburg. Lieutenant Thomp- 
son participated in the victory at 
Port Royal, was with his regiment 
in the defeat at Port Republic, and 
was in the battle of Cedar Moun- 
tain in August, 1862; was engaged 
in the second battle of Bull Run, at 
Fredericksburg, and Chancellors- 
ville, and also at Gettysburg. Lieu- 
tenant Thompson was promoted as 
follows: captain, Oct. 24, 1861; 
major, July 1, 1862; lieutenant- 
colonel, July 11, 1862; and colonel, 
June 24, 1863. In January, 1864, 
the New Hampshire Battalion went 
home on furlough, to become a nu- 
cleus of a New Hampshire regiment. 
In March, 1864, Colonel Thompson 
resigned, and in the following July, 
was commissioned colonel of the 
First New Hampshire Cavalry, being 
a part of the army under General 
Sheridan in the Shenandoah Val- 
ley, where the regiment did ser- 
vice at the battles of Winchester, 
Fisher's Hill, Waynesborough, Tom's 
Brook, and Cedar Creek ; at Waynes- 
borough the regiment especially dis- 
tinguished itself, being the first to 
enter the rebel breastworks and 
reach their artillery. As a mark of 
General Sheridan's appreciation of 
its brave conduct, Colonel Thomp- 
son's command was honored with 
the privilege of fighting its way 
back to the base of operations, a dis- 
tance of 100 miles, in charge of 
1500 prisoners. For this merito- 
rious service Colonel Thompson was 
brevetted brigadier-general, March 
13, 1865, when he was mustered out 
of service. Died Jan. 31, 1888. 
1856. Non-Grad. Charles Wood- 
bury Thrasher: Was mustered into 
the United States service at Paw- 
tucket, R. I., October, 1862, as cap- 
tain of Company B, Eleventh Rhode 
Island Infantry, recruited for nine 
months' service. He was mustered 
out July 16, 1863. The regiment's 
serA'ice was at Miner's Hill, near 
Washington, and at Suffolk, Vir- 
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1857. Charles Arms Carleton: 

Enlisted as px'ivate Engineer Corps, 
Twelfth New York IState Militia 
("Independence Guard"), three 
months' service, May 2, ISGl; mus- 
tered out Aug. 5, 1861; second lieu- 
tenant Fourth New Hampshire In- 
fantry Sept. 20, 1861; first lieuten- 
ant, Jan. 17, 1862; adjutant, Nov. 
2, 1862; discharged July 18, 1864; 
captain, assistant adjutant-general 
United States volunteers July 15, 
1864; major, assistant adjutant- 
general (for Fort Fisher), Jan. 15, 
1865 ; lieutenant-colonel, assistant 
adjutant-general Tenth Corps (by 
assignment), July 8, 1865, to dis- 
continuance, Aug. 1, 1865; mustered 
out Dec. 19, 1865. Brevet lieuten- 
ant-colonel United States Volun- 
teers March 13, 1865, " for distin- 
guished conduct at the storming of 
Fort Fisher, N. C, and for faith- 
ful and meritorious services during 
the war; " brevet-colonel and briga- 
dier-general March 1.3, 1865, " for 
gallant and meritorious services 
during the war." Second lieuten- 
ant Nineteenth United States In- 
fantry, May 11, 1866; declined Nov. 
30, 1866. Defences Washington, 
D. C, and General Patterson's 
Shenandoah, Va., campaign of 1861. 
Expeditionary (T. W. Sherman's) 
Corps to Port Royal, S. C, Novem- 
ber, 1861, occupation of Jackson- 
ville and Fernandina, Fla., action 
on James Island, S. C, Pocotaligo, 
expedition to Charleston, and op- 
erations on Folly and Morris Is- 
lands, against Forts Sumter, Wag- 
ner, and Gregg, Department of the 
South, and Tenth Corps, to April, 
1864. Eighteenth and Twenty- 
fourth Corps, Armies James and 
Potomac, occupation Bermuda Hun- 
dred, Va., Department Virginia and 
North Carolina, battles of Swift 
Creek, Weir Bottom Church, Fall- 
ing Creek, Drury's BluflF ( Fort Dar- 
ling), Cold Harbor, siege of Peters- 
berg, June to September, 1864; ex- 
plosion of the mine, actions of 
Darbytown Road, Charles City 



Cross Roads, and siege of Richmond, 
to December, 1864; acting assistant 
adjutant-general of brigade and 
division; expeditions against Fort 
Fisher, N. C. (was the only otlicer 
on the staff of Gen. Adelbert Ames, 
commanding assaulting column, not 
either killed or wounded ) ; occupa- 
tion of Wilmington and Raleigh ; 
Provisional Corps, and Army of the 
Ohio (Sherman's army) to John- 
ston's surrender; assistant adju- 
tant-general district western North 
and South Carolina, to muster out, 
Dec. 19, 1865. Died April 1, 1897. 
1857. John Howe Clark: Was ap- 
pointed assistant surgeon U. S. 
Navy Oct. 19, 1861; passed assist- 
ant surgeon, April 24, 1865; sur- 
geon. May 14, 1867; medical inspec- 
tor, Jan. 8, 1885; medical director, 
March 27, 1893. From June, 1862, 
to 1864, Blockading Squadron, Mis- 
sissippi River, coast of Texas, and 
Naval Hospital, New Orleans, La., 
Portsmouth, N. H., navy yard. 
July, 1864, to May, 1865, Pacific 
Squadron to June, 1867. From Dec. 
23, 1867, Receiving Ship, Ports- 
mouth, N. H., to December, 1869. 
Then to February, 1873, Asiatic 
Squadron. Then to June, 1873, 
Naval Rendezvous, N. Y. Then to 
November, 1875, Naval Hospital, 
Chelsea, Mass. Then to October, 
1878, North Atlantic Station, and 
on the U. S. S. " New Hampshire," 
Port Royal, S. C. Then U. S. 
Receiving Ship, Boston, Mass., 
to April, 1883. Then Pacific Sta- 
tion and fleet surgeon to April, 
1886. Then special duty, Ports- 
mouth, N. H., and Medical Examin- 
ing Board, Philadelphia, Pa., and 
New York, to 1890. Then European 
and Pacific stations, as fleet sur- 
geon to summer of 1892. Then 
president Medical Examining Board, 
New Y'ork, to date. 
1857. David Timothy Corbin: 
Was commissioned captain Tliird 
Vermont Infantry May 23, 1861; 
discharged, disability, wounds, Sept. 
11, 1862; captain Thirteenth Regi- 



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DAKTMOUTH EOLL OF HONOR 



ment Veteran Reserve Corps June 
3, 1SG3; brevet major United States 
Volunteers March 13, 1864, " for 
gallant conduct at the battle of 
Savage's Station, Va. ; " honorably 
discharged April 20, 1867. In 1861 
and 1862, Department Washington, 
Army of the Potomac, Seven Days' 
Fight, before Kichmond, Va., and 
battle Savages's Station, June 29, 
1862, where he was wounded and 
taken prisoner, exchanged and sent 
to hospital, Baltimore, Md., where 
he was discharged for disability from 
Avounds; special provost marshal of 
Vermont from Oct. 5, 1862, to 
March 18, 1863; December, 1865, as- 
signed to Freedmen's Bureau, as 
sub. assistant commissioner. South 
Carolina; afterwards provost judge, 
Charleston, and so continued until 
discharged. 
1857. Edward Watson Denny: 
Enlisted as a private Fifth Massa- 
chusetts Volunteers Sept. 19, 1862; 
first sergeant, Sept. 19, 1862; mus- 
tered out July 2, 1863; re-entered 
service as first lieutenant Second 
Massachusetts HeaAy Artillery 
Aug. 15, 1863; mustered out Sept. 
3. 1865; brevetted captain United 
States Volunteers March 13, 1865, 
for meritorious services. While in 
the Fifth Massachusetts, Mr. Denny 
served with the Eighteenth Army 
Corps, Department of North Caro- 
lina, and took part in the battles 
of Kinston Dec. 14, 1862, White- 
hall, Dec. 16, and Goldsboro, Dec. 
17. and many skirmishes during the 
Avinter and spring. While in the 
Second Massachusetts HeaAy Artil- 
lery he served as provost marshal 
on the staflF of Brigadier-General 
Pierce, at Readville, Mass., in the 
spring and winter of 1863. In 
January, 1864, went with his com- 
pany to Norfolk, Va. ; in February 
he was appointed acting assistant 
inspector-general on the staff of 
Gen. Israel Vogdes, commanding the 
district of Norfolk, remaining with 
him at Portsmouth, Va., until 
March, 1865, and accompanying 



him as aide-de-camp to the field 
in Florida, in April, where he re- 
mained until September, when he 
returned to Boston, Mass., and was 
mustered out. While in Florida he 
personally captured many of the 
personal effects of the rebel presi- 
dent, Jeff. Davis, some of which are 
still in his possession. 

1857. Henry Doane: Was appointed 
captain Forty-third Massachusetts 
Infantry (nine months' troops) 
Sept. 20, 1862; honorably discharged 
July 30, 1863; served under Gen. 
J. G. Foster, in North Carolina, 
in the battles of Kinston, White- 
hall, and relief of Little Washing- 
ton. Died Sept. 2, 1865. 

1857. Jolin Atwood Toilet : Was 
appointed assistant surgeon Thirty- 
ninth Ohio Infantry Aug. 15, 1862; 
surgeon, Sept. 3, 1862; honorably 
discharged July 9, 1865. In charge 
of hospitals of Sixteenth Army 
Corps, campaign to and before 
Atlanta, Ga., medical inspector 
Seventeenth Army Corps. 

1857. Henry Martyn Frost: Was 
appointed chaplain Seventh Ver- 
mont Feb. 12, 1862; resigned on ac- 
count of ill health Aug. 9, 1862. 
The regiment served in New Or- 
leans and other places in the De- 
partment of the Gulf during his 
connection with it. Died Feb. 20, 
1866. 

1857. Henry William Fuller: 
Was appointed first lieutenant 
First New Hampshire Infantry 
(three months' troops) April 30, 
1861; mustered out Aug. 9, 1861. 
First lieutenant, adjutant Fourth 
New Hampshire Infantry Sept. 20, 
1861. Resigned Oct. 29, 1862. 
Major Sixteenth New Hampshire 
Infantry Oct. 30, 1862. Promoted 
lieutenant-colonel Nov. 1, 1862. 
Mustered out Aug. 20, 1863. Colo- 
nel Seventy-fifth United States 
Colored Troops Nov. 23, 1863. Mus- 
tered out Nov. 25, 1865. Brevet 
brigadier-general United States 
Volunteers March 13, 1865, "for 
faithful and meritorious services 



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55 



during the war." In 1861 served 
on defences of Washington, Gen- 
eral Patterson's Shenandoah Val- 
ley campaign; Expeditionary (Gen. 
T. VV. Sherman's) Corps, Port 
Royal, S. C. In 1802, in battle 
of Pocotaligo, various movements 
in Department of the South; Tenth 
Army Corps, and St. Augustine, 
Fla. ; from November, 18G2, to 
muster out, November, 1805, De- 
partment of the Gulf. Died April 
7, 1885, at Boston, Mass. 

1857. William John Galbraith: 
Enlisted as private Twelfth Penn- 
sylvania Infantry (three months' 
troops) April 25, 1861; mustered 
out Aug. 5, 1861; first lieutenant 
Seventy-eighth Pennsylvania In- 
fantry Sept. 12, 1861; resigned 
June 20, 1863; first lieutenant 
United States Signal Corps March 
3, 1863; resigned April 26, 1864. 
In 1861, Defences of Baltimore, 
Md. In 1862 and 1863 Armies of 
the Ohio and Potomac, battle of 
Shiloh, Tenn., siege of Corinth, 
Miss., and Knoxville, Tenn., and 
Chancellorsville. Va. Prisoner of 
war, July 5 to Oct. 15, 1862. 

1857. Moses Kittredge Hazelton: 
Entered service as paymaster of the 
First New Hampshire Infantry 
(three montlis' troops) April 30, 
1861; honorably discharged June 
21, 1861; was appointed by the 
President additional paymaster of 
United States Volunteers, with the 
rank of major, June 1, 1861; died 
in service Aug. 3, 1863. He was 
serving at Memphis, Tenn., and be- 
came insane. Complimentary reso- 
lutions were passed by tlie Pay 
Corps stationed at Vicksburg, Miss. 

1857. Lloyd Wells Hixon: Was ap- 
pointed medical cadet United States 
Army in 1862; assistant surgeon 
Thirteenth Massachusetts Infantry 
March 3, 1863; honorably dis- 
charged Aug. 1, 1864. In 18*62 was 
on duty in Wood Street Hospital, 
Philadelphia, Pa., and before Rich- 
mond, Va., had command of a hos- 
pital transport. After McClellan's 



retreat was on duty at General Hos- 
pital near Fort Monroe, Va., until 
after the battle of Antietam, when 
he returned to Wood Street Hospi- 
tal. In 1863 was with the regiment, 
and in all the campaigns of the 
Army of the Potomac to August, 
1864. Prisoner of war at Gettys- 
burg July 1, 1863, but left by the 
enemy upon withdrawing from the 
field. While in front of Petersburg, 
Va., narrowly escaped death from 
the explosion of a shell, his com- 
panion being killed. In March, 
1885, was pensioned for total deaf- 
ness. 
1857. Arthur Edwin Hutchins: 
Was appointed first lieutenant 
Eleventh New Hampshire Volun- 
teers Sept. 2, 1862. The regiment 
left for Washington on the 11th of 
September, arrived there on the 
14th, and was attached to a brigade 
commanded by Gen. Henry F. 
Briggs; early in October marched 
to Maryland and was assigned to 
the Second Brigade, Second Division 
of the Ninth Army Corps. The regi- 
ment did picket duty at Falmouth, 
Va., until December 13, when oc- 
curred the battle of Fredericksburg, 
in which it participated with con- 
spicuous gallantry. In March, 1863, 
the regiment was ordered to Coving- 
ton, Ky., remaining there vmtil June 
4, when it was ordered to Vicks- 
burg, Miss. After the surrender of 
that city, July 4, the regiment 
joined in the pursuit of Gen. Joe 
Johnston, and was engaged in the 
capture of Jackson, Miss., July 
17, 1863; afterwards served in Ken- 
tucky at various places, and was en- 
gaged in the siege of Knoxville, 
Tenn., from Nov. 17 to Dee. 4, 
1863; during the winter was in 
camp at Lee's Springs, and on 
March 18 was ordered with the 
Ninth Corps to Annapolis, Md. ; 
joined the Army of the Potomac 
April 23. and on May 6 engaged in 
the l)loody battle of the Wilderness, 
in which Lieutenant Hutchins, who 
was then serving on the staff of 



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Brig.- Gen. S. G. Griffin, command- 
ing the Second Brigade, Second Di- 
vision of the Ninth Army Corps, 
was killed while carrying an order 
on which the lives of thousands of 
men depended on the speed with 
which it was conveyed. He boldly 
dashed on the field, and by his 
presence unmasked the enemy's posi- 
tion, but neither horse nor rider 
ever stirred again. 

1857. Norman Jones: Was ap- 
pointed chaplain of the One Hun- 
dred and Seventh Ohio Infantry 
Jan. 28, 1865; mustered out June 
14, 1865 ; his regiment was stationed 
at Nashville and was attached to 
the Second Brigade, Fourth Divi- 
sion, Twentieth Army Corps, doing 
guard duty, and remained at Nash- 
ville until the war ended. Previous 
to his services as chaplain he had 
done duty in connection with the 
Christian Commission, and was with 
General Thomas in the battles of 
Nashville, and Franklin, Tenn. 

1857. Edward Follansbee Noyes: 
Was appointed major Thirty-ninth 
Ohio Infantry July 8, 1861; lieu- 
tenant-colonel, July 8, 1862; col- 
onel Oct. 1, 1862; brevet brigadier- 
general United States Volunteers 
March 13, 1865, "for gallant and 
meritorious services; " resigned 
April 22, 1865. 

Served under Gen. John Pope in 
Missouri early in the war, and in 
Mississippi campaign at New Ma- 
drid, Mo., and Island No. 10, Missis- 
sippi River, under General Grant; 
under General Rosecrans at luka. 
Miss., and Corinth, Miss., and under 
General Sherman in the Atlanta, 
Ga., campaign, to July 4, 1864, when 
he lost a leg in an assault at Ruff's 
Mills, Ga. When recovered suffi- 
ciently to go on duty again he was 
placed in command of Camp Denison 
O., until his resignation, April 22, 
1865. Died Sept. 4, 1890. 

1857. Ezra Knight Parker: En- 
listed Sept. 4, 1861, as a private 
in Battery D, First Rhode Island 
Light Artillery; was commissioned 



in October, 1861, second lieutenant 
same company; in January, 1864, 
was promoted to first lieutenant and 
transferred to Battery E; was in 
command of the same battery from 
Dec. 10, 1864, to June 2, 1865; 
mustered out of service at Provi- 
dence June 14, 1865. Lieutenant 
Parker's battery was with the First 
Corps, under General McDowell, 
April, 1862, when he took Freder- 
icksburg; went on the raid to cut 
Virginia Central Railroad, with 
Gen. John Gibbon, in June, 1862; 
was at the battle of Groveton 
(Second Bull Run) in August, 
1862, and suffered severely in men, 
horses, and material ; was at the 
battle of Antietam, in General 
Hooker's corps, September, 1862; 
Lieutenant Parker, in this battle, 
commanded the right section of Bat- 
tery D, and was about 100 yards 
northwest of Dunker Church, and 
fired shells and solid shot into 
the church, the marks of which 
still remain. On eight guns the 
battery lost in killed and severely 
wounded all but two cannoneers. 
The total loss of the battery in 
men was about 33% per cent. 
In September and October, 1862, 
was acting assistant general of 
the Artillery Brigade, First Corps 
of the Army of the Potomac, un- 
der Capt. John A. Monroe and 
Captain G^rrish. chiefs of ar- 
tillery. Lieutenant Parker was 
in Kentucky and Tennessee with 
General Burnside in 1863 and 1864; 
was at the battle of Campbell's 
Station in 1863. also at the siege 
of Knoxville. where the battery dis- 
tinguished itself in repelling the 
assault of the enemy upon Fort 
Sanders in November, 18G3. Bat- 
tery E was attached to the Artillery 
Brigade, Sixth Corps of the Army 
of the Potomac ; was in nearly all 
the battles fought by this army, 
ending with the capture of Peters- 
burg and Richmond, in April, 1865. 
At the explosion of the mine in 
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1864, Battery E was selected as one 
of the two batteries tliat should ad- 
vance as soon as the infantry had 
cleared the way through the enemy's 
works, take positions, and attack 
the enemy's line. As the assault 
proved a failure the batteries were 
never sent forward. At the first 
assault on Petersburg, in June, 
1864, the right section of Battery 
E, under the command of Lieuten- 
ant Parker, fired the first cannon 
shot into the city. 

1857. Samuel Everett Pingree: 
Enlisted in Third Vermont Infantry 
May 8, 1861; first lieutenant. May 
24, 1861; captain, Aug. 13, 1861; 
major, Sept. 22, 1862; lieutenant- 
colonel, Jan. 15, 1863; mustered 
out July 27, 1864. In 1863 and 
1864 assigned to command Seventh 
and Second Vermont Infantry, re- 
spectively. Was twice wounded, 
April 16, 1862, battle of Lee's Mills, 
before Yorktown, Va., and in Battle 
of the Wilderness. Was in battles 
of Lewinsville, Lee's Mills, Manas- 
sas, South Mountain, Antietara, 
Fredericksburg ( first and second ) , 
Bank's Ford, Marye's Heights, 
Salem Church, Gettysburg, Funks- 
town, Rappahannock Station, Wil- 
derness, Spottsylvania, North Anna, 
Pamunkey, Cold Harbor, Peters- 
burg, Weldon Railroad, Ream's Sta- 
tion, and Fort Stevens. 

Brave, modest, unassviming. Col- 
onel Pingree was of the best type of 
the citizen soldier. 

1857. Lucius Stearns Shaw: 
Was appointed second lieutenant 
Second Kansas Infantry (three 
months' troops) June 20, 1861; was 
in Gen. Nathaniel Lyon's command 
at battle of Wilson's Creek, Mo. 
While the regiment was returning 
to Kansas he was fatally injured by 
the falling of Platte River Bridge, 
Mo. (fired by the enemy Sept. 2, 
1861), and taken to St. Joseph, 
where he died September 5. 
Wrapped in the American colors, 
his remains were sent with a flag 
of truce across the river, thence to 



Lawrence, Kan., and buried with 
military honors. 

1857. Henry Martyn Wells: 
Was appointed assistant surgeon 
U. S. Navy July 30, 1861; passed 
assistant surgeon, June 22, 1864; 
surgeon, Oct. 9, 1866; medical in- 
spector, Aug. 22, 1884; medical di- 
rector, Sept. 22, 1891. From 1861 
to 1865, Naval Rendezvous and 
Hospital, Boston, Mass., West Gulf 
Blockading Squadron, battles New 
Orleans, Donaldsonville, Grand 
Gulf, Port Hudson, La., and Vicks- 
burg, Miss. Receiving Ship and 
Hospital, Boston, Mass., North At- 
lantic Blockading Squadron, James 
River. Since 1865, nnvj yard, 
Washington, D. C, Brazil Square, 
Naval Hospital, N. Y., North At- 
lantic Squadron Receiving Ship, 
naA-y yard, N. Y., Schufeldt cruise 
around the world. Naval Laboratory 
and Hospital, N. Y., Museum of Hy- 
giene and Naval Hospital, Wash- 
ington, D. C, Naval Laboratory, 
N. Y. 

1857. Augustus Jackman Cheney, 
C.S.D.: Enlisted in May, 1864, at 
Madison, Wis., as a private in Com- 
pany F, Fortieth Regiment Wiscon- 
sin Volunteers; promoted June 8, 
and mustered in as captain of the 
same regiment. Term of service of 
the regiment was one hundred days ; 
it served at Memphis, Tenn., and 
was mustered out Sept. 16, 1864. 
During its term of service the regi- 
ment was most of the time on pro- 
vost duty. In February, 1865, Mr. 
Cheney received recruiting papers 
for the Forty-ninth Regiment Wis- 
consin Infantry, and on the 13th of 
February had one hundred and 
thirty-three men in Camp Randall, 
Madison, Wis.; was mustered as 
captain of Company K. same regi- 
ment, Feb. 4, 1865; Avas placed in 
command of Fort Wyman, Rolla, 
Mo., March 15, 1865, and continued 
there until August 18; was made 
commandant of Military Prison and 
Scofield Barracks, St. Louis, Mo., 
Sept. 22, 1865, where he was mus- 



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tered out with his regiment; was 
appointed major of the regiment by 
tlie governor of Wisconsin, but never 
mustered as such. 

1857. Francis Henry Goodall, 
C.S.D. : Enlisted in the Beloit Wis- 
consin Rifles in 1801 for three 
months. This company was at- 
tached to the Second Wisconsin 
Infantry, and was honorably dis- 
charged in May, 1861, a majority 
of the company not being willing 
to enlist for three years. Mr. Good- 
all was one of the few who did en- 
list for three years and was first 
sergeant of the company. In Au- 
gust, 1862, at the earnest solicita- 
tion of his friend, A. E. Hutchins, 
class 1857, he returned to New 
Hampshire, and enlisted in the 
Eleventh New Hampshire Volun- 
teers on the 22d of that month, 
and was made first sergeant of Com- 
pany G; was with the regiment at 
the battles of Fredericksburg, Va., 
in December, 1862, and all the time 
till April, 1863, when he was taken 
sick with measles at Mount Ster- 
ling, Ky., and was never fit for ac- 
tive service afterwards; was hon- 
orably discharged May 23, 1864. 
January, 1863, Sergeant Goodall 
was recommended by Lieutenant- 
Colonel Collins for promotion, with 
very complimentary references. In 
the history of the Eleventh New 
Hampshire, mention is made of the 
heroic conduct of Sergeant Goodall 
in carrying, from the field of battle, 
at Fredericksburg, the body of Ser- 
geant Pingree, who was badly 
wounded in that battle. Lieuten- 
ant Goodall succeeded in getting 
him safely over the river, from 
which place he was sent home. 
For this act Sergeant Goodall was 
awarded a medal of honor under 
resolution of Congress, approved 
July 12, 1862. 

1857. Henry Moses Pollard, 
C.S.D. : Was commissioned first 
lieutenant Eighth Vermont Infantry 
in July, 1863, the regiment being 
in service in Louisiana, under Gen- 



eral Banks. Lieutenant Pollard was 
with the regiment at Bisland and 
Port Hudson, although he had not 
then been mustered into the United 
States service. Soon after being 
mustered he was assigned to duty 
on the staff of Gen. Godfrey Weitzel. 
During the winter of 1863 and 1864 
the regiment re-enlisted, and in 
February, 1864, went to Vermont 
on veteran furlough, thereby escap- 
ing the dangers of the Red River 
campaign. The regiment returned, 
after the expiration of the furlough, 
to Louisiana, but had hardly ar- 
rived there, when, with the rest of 
the Nineteenth Corps, they were 
ordered north by water. The corps 
was to report to General Grant at 
City Point, but, on account of the 
invasion of the Shenandoah Valley 
by the rebel General Early, it was 
immediately sent to Washington, 
and was engaged in the Valley cam- 
paign for the rest of the season. 
Lieutenant Pollard had in the mean- 
time been promoted to a captaincy, 
and served on the staff of Gen. Wm. 
Dwight, who commanded the First 
Division of the Nineteenth Corps, 
participating in the battles of Ope- 
quan, Fisher's Hill, and Cedar 
Creek, which followed each other 
in quick succession. Soon after 
the battle of Cedar Creek, when the 
Eighth Vermont was terribly cut 
to pieces, the division went into 
camp near Winchester, Va., and 
there remained giiarding the en- 
trance to the Shenandoah till April, 
1865, when the division was dis- 
rupted, the Eighth Vermont going 
to Washington; in the winter of 
1864 and 1865 Captain Pollard wa3 
promoted to the majority of the 
regiment, the regiment remaining 
around Washington, participating 
in the grand review, and doing duty 
till the end of June, when, the war 
being over, it was mustered out of 
service. While in Louisiana Major 
Pollard and the surgeon of the regi- 
ment came into possession of two 
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Henry and Scott Montgomery, who 
came to Vermont with the regiment 
at the end of the war. Both boys 
afterwards were well educated (one 
at Dartmouth College) and became 
well-known teachers. Died Feb. 24, 
1904. 

1857. William Child, D.M.C. : Was 
commissioned second assistant sur- 
geon Fifth Regiment New Hamp- 
shire Volunteers August 13, 1862; 
promoted first assistant surgeon 
Oct. 19, 1862, to date Aug. 13, 1862; 
surgeon, Oct. 28, 1864; mustered 
out June 28, 1865. The Fifth New 
Hampshire was one of the fighting 
regiments of the Army of the Poto- 
mac, and Colonel Fox, in his work 
on "Regimental Losses in the Civil 
War," says : " The one regiment in 
all the Union armies which sus- 
tained the greatest loss in battle 
during the American Civil War was 
the Fifth New Hampshire Infan- 
try." A service on the surgical staff 
of this regiment involved arduous 
and self-sacrificing labors. 

1857. William Bangs Cobb, 
D.M.C: W^as commissioned in Oc- 
tober, 1861, as surgeon and served 
in the Department of Missouri under 
Gen. John C. Fremont. Died April 
6, 1890. 

1857. Greorge Badger Cogswell, 
D.M.C. : Was commissioned assist- 
ant surgeon Twenty-ninth Massa- 
chusetts Volunteers Dec. 14, 1861; 
surgeon, Aug. 7, 1862; acting medi- 
cal inspector Ninth Army Corps. 
The Twenty-ninth Regiment was for 
a large part of its service connected 
with the Ninth Army Corps. While 
surgeon he gave himself up as a 
prisoner in order to serve sick and 
wounded prisoners, and was on duty 
at Libby prison; discharged for 
disability March 15, 1864. Died 
March 6, 1876. 

1857. David Marks Goodwin, 
D.M.C: Was commissioned assist- 
ant surgeon Third Regiment Ver- 
mont Volunteers June 20, 1861; 
promoted to surgeon April 29, 1863; 
mustered out July 27, 1864. In the 



three years of his service the regi- 
ment was connected witli the Ver- 
mont Brigade, which was in all the 
heavy fighting of the Army of the 
Potomac, and suifered severe losses. 
The duties of a surgeon in such a 
regiment were most trying, and such 
as demanded great skill. 

1857. Story Norman Goss, D.M.C. : 
Was commissioned assistant sur- 
geon Ninth Regiment Vermont Vol- 
unteers Sept. 26, 1862. Resigned 
Oct. 15, 1863. 

This regiment was a part of the 
unfortunate garrison of Harper's 
Ferry, which was surrendered to 
the rebels Sept. 14, 1862. Assist- 
ant Surgeon Goss joined the regi- 
ment at Chicago, to which place the 
officers and men had been sent as 
paroled prisoners of war. After an 
exchange was aflected, Jan. 10, 1863, 
the regiment was detained at Chi- 
cago until March 28, when it was 
ordered South, and served, during 
Surgeon Goss's connection with it, 
in the vicinity of Suffolk and York- 
town, Va. 

1857. Charles William Hunt, 
D.M.C. : Was commissioned assist- 
ant surgeon Twelfth Regiment New 
Hampshire Volunteers Sept. 6, 
1862, and died at Hammond Gen- 
eral Hospital, Point Lookout, Aug. 
20, 1863. 

1857. James Stafford O'Donnell, 
D.M.C. : Was commissioned sur- 
geon of the Purnell Legion, Mary- 
land Volunteers, with rank of 
major, Dec. 15, 1861; promoted to 
Division surgeon and Department 
medical director with rank of 
colonel. Organized the hospital at 
Smoketown, Maryland. Mustered 
out, by reason of expiration of ser- 
vice, Oct. 24, 1864. Commissioned 
surgeon Thirteenth Regiment Mary- 
land Volunteers April 5, 1865, but 
was not mustered on account of 
termination of the war. Died Dec. 
19, 1896, at Stockton, Kan. 

1857. Non-Grad. John Burgin 
Haselton: Was appointed acting 
assistant paymaster U. S. Na^•y 



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Nov. 4, 1862; dismissed April 25, 
1863; served in U. S. S. "J. C. 
Kulm," South Atlantic Blockading 
Squadron. 
1857. Non-Grad. Verres N. 
Smith: Was commissioned cap- 
tain Nineteenth United States In- 
fantry May 14, 1861; resigned 
July 16, 1863; colonel volunteer 
aide in 1863; Departments Ken- 
tucky and Cumberland. 

1857. Non-Grad. Thaddeus Ste- 
vens: Enlisted First Pennsylvania 
Infantry (three months' troops) 
April 20, 1861; mustered out July 
26, 1861; captain One Hundred 
and Twenty-second Pennsylvania 
Infantry Aug. 12, 1862; major, 
Aug. 14, 1862; mustered out May 
15, 1863; lieutenant-colonel Fif- 
tieth Pennsylvania Infantry (mili- 
tia) July 11, 1863; discharged Aug. 
15, 1863. In 1861 in General Pat- 
terson's Shenandoah Valley, Va., 
campaign; in 1862 and 1863 Army 
of the Potomac, at first, Fredericks- 
burg, and, second, Chancellorsville, 
Va., having a horse shot under him 
in the latter. Afterwards provost 
marshal Ninth Congressional Dis- 
trict, to close of the war. 

1858. Henry Bacon: Was com- 
missioned second lieutenant Com- 
pany C, Thirty-fourth Regiment 
Massachusetts Volunteers Aug. 11, 
1862. Promoted first lieutenant 
June 25, 1863. Discharged for disa- 
bility Nov. 28, 1864. Died July 
29, i896. 

1858. William Lawrence Baker, 
C.S.D. : In honor of whom a schol- 
arship has been given the Chandler 
Scientific Department by his aunt 
and mother by adoption, Mrs. Caro- 
line Lawrence of Winsted, Conn., 
was the son of Hon. Osmyn Baker. 
With the purpose of becoming a 
civil engineer he entered the Chand- 
ler Department in 1854, and was 
graduated at the age of nineteen. 
When it was evident that Civil War 
was at hand he applied for a com- 
mission in the regular army, and 
was offered his choice between a 



captain's and a lieutenant's com- 
mission. Since he " preferred to 
win promotion on his merits " he 
accepted the latter, and at the age 
of twenty-one was commissioned 
second lieutenant of artillery in 
August, 1861. Joining Company K, 
Fourth United States Artillery, he 
remained at Washington till Decem- 
ber, meanwhile being promoted first 
lieutenant. From Washington he 
was ordered to western Virginia, 
where, under General Lander, his 
battery did efficient service at the 
battle of Romney. L'pon General 
Lander's death he was placed under 
General Shields in Banks's corps, 
and in the battle of Winchester his 
bearing was that of a veteran. The 
Confederates having made an unex- 
pected movement towards his bat- 
tery for the purpose of capturing 
it. Lieutenant Baker sighted the 
guns and discharged them with such 
deadly effect that the assailants 
were repulsed. At the battle of 
Port Republic Lieutenant Baker 
won for himself deserved praise for 
the coolness and judgment dis- 
played by him in the face of over- 
whelming odds. At Bull Run a 
cannon ball carried away his blan- 
ket and a part of his saddle. When 
the Confederates crossed the Poto- 
mac he joined in the advance to 
drive them out. The last heard of 
him was that he was with his bat- 
tery at Antietam. There is no cer- 
tain account of the manner of his 
death, but he was found pierced 
with two bullets, one having passed 
from shoulder to shoulder, severing 
the spinal column, the other having 
pierced his heart. Thus bravely 
died one of " Old Dartmouth's " 
many patriotic sons whose names 
fitly make a " Roll of Honor." 
1858. Augustus Blodgett Clark: 
Was commissioned first lieutenant 
in Second Regiment New York 
State Militia (subsequently the 
Eighty-second New York Volun- 
teers) Sept. 13, 1861. Promoted 
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1, 1862, and honorably discharged 
on resignation October, 18G2. 

He served witli his company at 
Ball's Bluff, Yorktown, Fair Oaks, 
Seven Pines, Savage's Station, 
White Oak Swamp, Glendale, Nel- 
son's Farm, jMalvern Hill, Second 
Bull Run. and Antietam. 

The regiment was always in Gor- 
man's brigade, SedgAvick's divi- 
sion, Sumner's corps, Army of the 
Potomac. 

The report of the adjutant-gen- 
eral says that the Eighty-second 
seems to have suffered greater loss 
in action than any other New York 
regiment. 
1858. Albert Austin Davis: 
Was appointed acting assistant 
surgeon U. S. Army in October, 
1864, and served until October, 1865, 
being stationed all of the time at 
^McDougal General Hospital, Fort 
Schuyler, N. Y. Harbor. 
1858. Samuel Augustus Duncan: 
Was appointed major of the Four- 
teenth New Hampshire Volunteers 
Sept. 22. 1862; served with that 
regiment until Sept. 16, 1863, when 
he was appointed colonel of the 
Fourth United States Colored In- 
fantry; mustered out May 4, 1866; 
brevetted brigadier-general of 
United States Volunteers Oct. 28, 

1864, for gallant and meritorious 
services in the attack upon the 
enemy's works at Spring Hill, Va. ; 
brevetted major-general March 13, 

1865, for gallant and meritorious 
services during the war; served in 
the Department of Washington, 
D. C. ; Middle and Department of 
Virginia ; Eighteenth and Twenty- 
fourth Corps ; Army of the James, 
and in the battles of Baylois Farm, 
Va., siege of Petersburg, June 16, 
1864, to April 3, 1865; Newmarket 
Heights, May 16, 1864; and explo- 
sion of the mine, July 30, 1864, and 
was wounded at Fort Harrison and 
Spring Hill, Va., Sept. 30, 1864; 
served in the Provisional Corps, 
Army of the Ohio; Department of 
North Carolina to Joe Johnston's 



surrender; defences of Washington, 
D. C, to muster out, May 4, 1866. 
Died Oct. 18, 1895. 

1858. Horace Meeker Dyke: 
Enlisted May 14, 1861, at Lawrence, 
Kan., in Company D, Second Regi- 
ment Kansas Volunteers ; mustered 
in June 20, 1861; died Oct. 6, 1861, 
from wounds received in the battle at 
Wilson's Creek, Mo., Aug. 10, 1861. 

1858. Abial Walstein Fisher: 
Was commissioned first lieutenant 
Company H, Fourth Regiment Ver- 
mont Volunteers Sept. 12, 1861, 
and mustered into the United States 
service at Brattleboro, September 
21; promoted to captain Company 
K, same regiment, Nov. 5, 1862, and 
mustered out Sept. 30, 1864. The 
Fourth Vermont was one of six 
regiments that composed the First 
Vermont Brigade, and to have be- 
longed to such an organization was 
a high honor. Col. W. F. Fox, in 
his elaborate work entitled " Regi- 
mental Losses in the American 
Civil War," gives a list of eight 
" famous " brigades made pre- 
eminent by their losses in action. 
In this list the First Vermont Bri- 
gade stands first. " The greatest 
loss of life," says Colonel Fox, " in 
any one brigade during the war 
occurred in the Vermont Brigade." 
From over two thousand regiments 
in the Union Armies, Colonel Fox 
selects three hundred as the " fight- 
ing regiments " which lost from 134 
to 224 men each, killed and died of 
wounds. Of these Vermont fur- 
nished nine, and the Fourth was 
among them. Captain Fisher was 
with his regiment in the battles of 
the Peninsula, Antietam, Freder- 
icksburg, Marye's Heights, Gettys- 
burg, Funkstown, Rappahannock 
Station, and the Wilderness, where 
he was wounded. He returned at 
the close of the three years' service 
and was mustered out with such of 
the regiment as did not re-enlist. 
Died March 26, 1895. 

1858. Frank Hopkins Fletcher: 
Was appointed from Missouri addi- 



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tional paymaster United States 
Volunteers, with rank of major, 
July 2, 1864, and mustered out 
March 31, ISGO. Died July, 1900. 
1858. Edwin Brant Frost: Was 
commissioned captain Company A, 
Tenth Regiment Vermont Volun- 
teers, July 7, 1862, and mustered into 
the United States service Sept. 1, 
1862, at Brattleboro ; killed in action 
at Spottsylvania Court House June 
3, 1864. The regiment left for 
the front September 6, and took 
with it, among other camp equipage, 
a library of 200 volumes, the gift of 
Captain Frost. It is not known that 
any other Vermont regiment was so 
equipped. In the fall and winter of 
1862-1863 the regiment was engaged 
in guarding the fords of the Upper 
Potomac. Soon after the battle of 
Gettysburg the regiment was or- 
dered to join the army of the Poto- 
mac, and Morris's brigade, to which 
it belonged, was assigned to the 
Third Division, Tliird Army Corps, 
under General French. During the 
fall of 1863 the brigade took part in 
several sharp skirmishes along the 
line of the Orange and Alexandria 
Railroad, and crossed the Rappa- 
hannock River November 7. On the 
27th of the same month the regi- 
ment was engaged in the battle of 
Mine Run and suflFered severely. 
The winter was spent at Brandy 
Station. On the reorganization of 
the Army of the Potomac the Third 
Corps was broken up and Morris's 
brigade became the First Brigade, 
Third Division, Sixth Army Corps. 
The division was commanded by 
General Ricketts. In all the battles 
of the Wilderness campaign the 
regiment took a prominent part, 
and Captain Frost was always at 
his post of duty. On the 1st of 
June he was acting major of his 
regiment, and received the sword of 
the major of the Fifty-fourth North 
Carolina Rebel Regiment in surren- 
der. In the a.ssault on the enemy's 
works on the morning of June 3, 
by the Second, Sixth, Ninth, and 



Eighteenth Corps, Ricketts's divi- 
sion was in the centre of the Sixth 
Corps line, and was repulsed with 
heavy loss, though it gained and 
held positions within forty yards of 
the enemy's works. In the charge 
Captain Frost fell with two ghastly 
wounds, and died five hours later. 
Chaplain Arthur Little of the 
Eleventh Vermont (Dart. Coll. 
1860), his brother-in-law, was with 
him when he died. He met his 
death with fortitude, declaring with 
almost his last breath that he was 
" happy to die for his country and 
his God." 

1858. Samuel Lankton Gerould: 
Enlisted Aug. 11, 1862, and was 
assigned to Company G, Fourteenth 
New Hampshire Volunteers; was 
mustered in as sergeant ; served one 
year in the field, chiefiy on guard 
and picket duty on the Potomac, 
above Washington, and on guard 
duty at Washington ; was detached 
by order of the secretary of war 
as clerk and reporter of a general 
court-martial, convened in Wash- 
ington for the trial of civilians in- 
fringing the rules of war, and 
higher officers of the army; during 
the year and a half he occupied 
this position he was sent to Tren- 
ton, N. J., for two weeks, in 1864, 
and in August of the same year to 
Carlisle, Pa., where he remained 
three and one half months, and in 
February, 1865, to Wheeling, Va., 
where, after five weeks of court- 
martial duty, he returned to his 
regiment, stationed at Savannah, 
Ga. After one week with his regi- 
ment he was again detached by 
order of General Grover, division 
commander, as clerk in the ordi- 
nance office, which position he held 
until mustered out July 8, 1865, at 
Hilton Head, S. C. 

1858. Alexander Ingram: En- 
tered the army from Cincinnati, O., 
as assistant surgeon in May, 1861, 
and was assigned to the Second 
United States Cavalry, while sta- 
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at the battle of Bull Run; served 
in the field and in Judiciary Square 
Hospital, Washington, and was 
drowned at sea in the wreck of the 
steamer " Brother Jonathan," while 
going with his regiment from San 
Francisco to Portland, in July, 
1S05. 

1858. Alanson Bertram Long: 
Was appointed captain of Company 
A, Fifty-second Massachusetts 
Volunteers, in the fall of 18G2 (a 
nine months' regiment ) , which was 
ordered to the Department of the 
Gulf and participated in the battles 
of Port Hudson, where he is spoken 
of by the majority of the regiment 
as " always on the alert and ever at 
his post of duty." Died Nov. 1, 
1870. 

1858. George Armstrong Lyon: 
W^as commissioned assistant pay- 
master in the navy June 11, 1862; 
was attached to the gunboats " Lex- 
ington " and " Tuscumbia," Missis- 
sippi flotilla, in 1862 and 1863; 
participated in the attack on Haines 
Bluff, Yazoo River, in December, 
1862; in the capture of Arkansas 
Post, Jan. 12, 1863; in several en- 
gagements with the forces of the 
enemy on the Cumberland and Ten- 
nessee rivers, during January, Feb- 
ruary, and March, 1863; in running 
the Vicksburg batteries April 9, 
1863 ; in battle of Grand Gulf, Miss., 
April 29, 1863; and all the other 
engagements of the Mississippi 
Squadron during the siege of Vicks- 
burg and until its surrender; was 
attached to the steam sloop " Pon- 
toosuc," North Atlantic Blockading 
Squadron, in 1864 and 1865; took 
part in both attacks on Fort Fisher 
in December and January, 1864 and 
1865; in the subsequent engagement 
on Cape Fear River, which resulted 
in the surrender of Wilmington, N. 
C, and afterwards in the engage- 
ment of the naval forces on the 
James River, in co-operation with 
the Army of the Potomac and the 
James, until the fall of Richmond; 
was commissioned paymaster, with 



the assimilated rank of major in the 
army, in January, 1806, and pay 
inspector, with the assimilated rank 
of lieutenant-colonel, in September, 
1888. 

1858. Elias Craig Neal: Was ap- 
pointed acting assistant surgeon of 
the U. S. Navy from New Hamp- 
shire Feb. 27, 1864; honorably dis- 
charged Dec. 25, 1865. His service 
was entirely in the West Gulf 
Blockading Squadron, on U. S. S. 
" Princeton." Died Aug. 30, 1897. 

1858. Thomas Lancaster San- 
born: Was appointed first lieu- 
tenant of Company D, Eleventh 
New Hampshire Volunteers, Sept. 
4, 1862, and served with his regi- 
ment in the Army of the Potomac 
until February, 1863, when he re- 
signed. On reporting at Washing- 
ton, the Eleventh Regiment was 
assigned to the Ninth Army Corps, 
and during Lieutenant Sanborn's 
connection with it participated in 
the battles of White Sulphur 
Springs and Fredericksburg. 

1858. Budolph Warfel Shenk: 
Enlisted April 18, 1861, in Com- 
pany F, First Regiment Pennsyl- 
vania Volunteers for three months; 
in August, 1802, was commissioned 
major in the One Hundred and 
Thirty-fifth Regiment Pennsylvania 
Volunteers; served without inter- 
mission until the regiment was 
mustered out, and, during the 
larger part of the time, was in 
command of the regiment. He par- 
ticipated in the battles of Freder- 
icksburg and Chancellorsville, and 
served several months on the James 
River, where he exhibited great 
sagacity, firmness, and skill in ar- 
ranging for the exchange of prison- 
ers. In June, 1863, he was made 
deputy provost marshal for the 
Ninth District of Pennsylvania, 
which ofRce he held until Jan. 1, 
1865. Died Sept. 26, 1880. 

1858. Samuel Morse Smith: Was 
appointed second lieutenant Com- 
pany I, Third New Hampshire Vol- 
imteers, Aug. 22, 1861, and first 



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lieutenant of Company K, of the 
same regiment, June 22, 1S62, serv- 
ing as such until June 13, 18G3; 
re-enlisted as a private in Company 
G, Fourteenth New Hampshire Vol- 
unteers, Dec. 18, 18G3, and served 
until Feb. 27, 1864, when he was 
appointed captain in the Thirty- 
second Regiment United States 
Colored Troops, and was mustered 
out of service Aug. 22, 1865. He 
died Feb. 5, 1884, at St. Louis, Mo. 
The Thirty-second Regiment Unit- 
ed States Colored Troops was organ- 
ized at Camp William Penn, Pa., 
February, 1864, and was in the bat- 
tles of Honey Hill and Deveaux 
Neck. 

1858. Malcolm Webster Tewks- 
bury: Enlisted Aug. 9, 1862, and 
was at once commissioned first lieu- 
tenant Company C, One Hundred 
and Fourth Regiment Illinois Vol- 
unteers; soon after was captured 
with the regiment at Hartsville, 
Tenn., but after five days was ex- 
changed. On March 11 of the fol- 
lowing year was promoted to 
captain ; was so disabled by wounds 
that he was obliged to resign May 
30, 1863, a major's commission 
being on the way to him at that 
time. Captain Tewksbury was in 
the Tullahoma campaign and the 
actions around Tullahoma and the 
Elk River. Died April 5, 1882. 

1858. Ai Baker Thompson: En- 
listed in the Second New Hampshire 
Volunteers April 17, 1861, and was 
mustered as second lieutenant June 
3, 1861; August 5 following he was 
appointed captain in the Eighteenth 
United States Infantry; Dec. 31, 
1862, was brevetted major U. S. 
Army for meritorious service in the 
battle of Murfreesboro, Tenn., and 
on May 6, 1864, was placed on the 
retired list, by reason of disability 
resulting from wounds received in 
battle. He participated in the fol- 
lowing battles: First Bull Run; 
Lick Creek, Miss.; Corinth, Miss.; 
Springfield to Texas, Ky. ; Perry- 
ville, Ky. ; Stone River or Murfrees- 



boro, Tenn. From June, 1863, to 
July, 1864, he was inspector, pro- 
vost marshal general, Department of 
the Ohio; afterward mustering and 
disbursing officer, and acting assist- 
ant provost marshal for New 
Hampshire to the close of the war. 
In September, 1867, was ordered to 
Richmond, Va., for court-martial 
duty ; was appointed sheriflF of Rich- 
mond by military authority June, 
1869. Died Sept. 12, 1890, at Con- 
cord, N. H. 

1858. William Lutber Thompson: 
Enlisted in August, 1862, in the 
Fifth Massachusetts Volunteers ; 
upon organization of the company 
was elected second lieutenant of 
Company C, and in October the 
regiment went to North Carolina, 
where it was in service during its 
term of enlistment (nine months) 
under General Foster. The regiment 
was in the battles of Kinston, 
Whitehall, and Goldsboro, in the 
last of which the regiment sup- 
ported a battery and was under fire 
for over an hour, the colors being 
hit several times by grapeshot, and 
a few men were severely wounded. 
The regiment also assisted in the 
capture of a rebel fortification, a 
few miles east of Kinston, in the 
spring of 1863, in which 800 pris- 
oners were captured. The regiment 
returned to Massachusetts in June, 
1863. In 1864, when Early made 
his raid on Washington, the officers 
of the regiment were ordered to 
recruit its full complement for a 
service of 100 days. Mr. Tliompson 
was elected first lieutenant of Com- 
pany C, after aiding in recruiting 
101 men for his company, and in 
the latter part of July the regiment 
was ordered to Baltimore, and did 
guard duty in Fort McHenry dur- 
ing its term of service. Lieutenant 
Thompson was appointed assistant 
adjutant-general on the staff of 
Gen. W. W. Morris, brigade com- 
mander. 

1858. William Carter Tracy, 
C.S.D. : Enlisted as a private in 



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the First Vermont Regiment, for 
three months, May 2, 18G1; on his 
return he raised a part of Company 
K, for the Fourth Vermont Volun- 
teers, then forming, and was ap- 
pointed second lieutenant ; promoted 
first lieutenant Company H Nov. 5, 
1862. The regiment became a part 
of the First Vermont Brigade. 
Lieutenant Tracy took part in all 
the battles fought by the Army of 
the Potomac, from McClellan's 
Seven Days' Fight before Richmond 
until he was killed, June 23, 18G4. 
In the Battle of the Wilderness, 
May 5, he was twice wounded, but 
did not leave his company, of 
■which he was then in command, al- 
though most men would have gone 
to the rear with such severe 
wounds as he received. On June 23, 
the day of his death, his regiment 
was surrounded, or nearly so, by 
rebels, while placed on the Weldon 
Railroad, below Petersburg. The 
greater part of the regiment were 
taken prisoners. Lieutenant Tracy 
declined a summons to surrender, 
and with a few others attempted 
to escape. He was killed by a ball 
through the head. At the time of 
his death he held the rank of cap- 
tain of Company G, having been 
promoted May 5, 1864. 

1858. Gustavus Brown Williams, 
C.S.D.: Enlisted Sept. 6, 1862, as 
a private in Company K, Fifty-first 
Regiment Massachusetts Volun- 
teers, to serve nine months; went 
into camp at Worcester; sailed 
from Boston, November, 1862, for 
Newbern, serving in North Caro- 
lina until mustered out, July 21, 
1863; was made sergeant before 
leaving Worcester; was in General 
Foster's expedition from Newbern 
to Goldsboro, N. C, and in the bat- 
tle at Whitehall, N. C, and in such 
other expeditions and skirmishes as 
the regiment participated in during 
its term of service. 

1858. Constantine Christopher 
Badger, D.M.C. : Enlisted in Com- 
pany 1, Sixth Regiment New Hamp- 



shire Volunteers, Dec. 16, 1861, and 
discharged Aug. 11, 1862, by reason 
of being employed as contract sur- 
geon. Died, 1867. 

1858. George Holmes Bixby, 
D.M.C: Was commissioned assist- 
ant surgeon U. S. Navy June 1, 
1862; served on U. S, S. "Red 
River"; resigned and discharged 
June 24, 1865. Died Feb. 27, 1901. 

1858. Non-Grad. John Henry 
Buckner, C.S.D. : Was appointed 
acting surgeon for the naval station 
at Cincinnati, 0. ; then assistant 
surgeon U. S. Navy, attached to 
the Mississippi Squadron, and par- 
ticipating in the battle off Plumb 
Point. 

1858. William Baldwin Ellis, 
D.M.C. : Was connected with the 
army as acting assistant surgeon 
for some time during the war, and 
afterwards became connected with 
Freedmen's Hospital, Washington, 
D.C., and obtained a good reputa- 
tion as a surgeon. He died while he 
was connected with this hospital, in 
1866. 

1858. Henry Charles Shaw, 
D.M.C. : Was commissioned assist- 
ant surgeon First Regiment New 
Hampshire Volunteers April 30, 
1861, and mustered out at the ex- 
piration of the term of service of 
the regiment, Aug. 9, 1861. 

The regiment served under Gen- 
erals Charles P. Stone and Patter- 
son, in the Departments of Wash- 
ington and Pennsylvania. 

Surgeon Shaw had been out of 
service only six days when he was 
commissioned assistant surgeon of 
the Fifth Regiment Vermont Volun- 
teers Aug. 15, 1861. This regiment 
was a part of the Vermont Brigade, 
and Surgeon Shaw did faithful ser- 
vice at Camp Griffin near Washing- 
ton in the winter of 1861 and 1862, 
and on the Peninsula under INIcClel- 
lan in the spring and summer of 
the latter year. Died of disease 
Sept. 7, 1862. 

1858. Franklin Christopher 
Weeks, D.M.C: Was commissioned 



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assistant surgeon Fourteenth Regi- 
ment Xew Hampshire Volunteers 
Sept. 23, 1862, and died of disease 
in New York City March 8, 18G4. 

While Surgeon Weeks Avas con- 
nected with the regiment it per- 
formed distinguished service in the 
vicinity of Washington and along 
the upper Potomac, being then under 
the command of Col. Robert Wilson. 

1858. Non-Grad. J. Ware Butter- 
field: Was appointed captain Com- 
pany D, Twelfth Regiment New 
Hampshire Volunteers, Sept. 8, 
1862; resigned Nov. 17, 1862. 

1858. Non-Grad. James Calvin 
Cooley, C.S.D. : Enlisted as a pri- 
vate Seventh New York JNIilitia 
April 30, 1861; mustered out June 
3, 1861; enlisted first sergeant. One 
Hundred and Thirty-third Regiment 
New Y'ork Volunteers, otherwise 
called Second Regiment Metropoli- 
tan Guard, Aug. 15, 1862; promoted 
second lieutenant Sept. 24, 1862 ; 
first lieutenant Dec. 3, 1862; dis- 
charged Feb. 27, 1865; enlisted 
private Fifth Regiment Cavalry 
March 1, 1865 ; promoted second 
lieutenant May 3, 1865 ; first lieu- 
tenant July 28, 186G; enlisted 
March 1, 1867. Brevetted first 
lieutenant and captain May 3, 1865, 
for gallant and meritorious services 
during the war. His service while 
in the army was in the defences 
of Washington, Nineteenth Corps, 
Department of the Gulf, and Army 
of the Shenandoah; Cavalry Corps, 
Army of the Potomac ; headquarters 
of the Army of the United States; 
Department of the Tennessee. 
Wounded at Winchester, Va., Sept. 
19, 1864. 

1858. Non-Grad. George Albert 
Wainwright, C.S.D. : Was second 
lieutenant of Company I, Sixth 
Regiment Indiana Volunteers ; mus- 
tered out at the expiration of the 
term of the regiment; rendered ser- 
vice as adjutant of the Thirty-ninth 
Indiana ; resigned May 10, 1862. 

1859. ■William Bichards Adams: 
Enlisted May 12, 1864, in Com- 



pany D, One Hundred and Thirty- 
third Regiment Illinois Volunteers, 
and was mustered in as chaplain 
of said regiment. The regiment 
performed prison duty at Rock Is- 
land Barracks during its term of 
service. 

1859. Henry Brydge Atherton: 
Was commissioned captain of Com- 
pany C, Fourth Vermont Volun- 
teers, Sept. 21, 1861. The regiment 
was ordered to Chain Bridge, above 
Washington, and spent the winter 
at Camp Griffin near Lewisville, Va. 
In March, 1862, the Vermont Bri- 
gade, of which the Fourth Regi- 
ment was a part, accompanied the 
Army of the Potomac to the Penin- 
sula and was engaged prominently 
in all the battles of that campaign. 
Captain Atherton was severely 
wounded in the engagement at 
Lee's Mills and Warwick Creek, Va., 
and by reason of disability arising 
from his woimds resigned his com- 
mission Aug. 13, 1862. 

1859. Fisher Ames Baker: Was 
commissioned July 26. 1861, as 
second lieutenant Eighteenth Regi- 
ment Massachusetts Volunteers, and 
was with it during his entire terra 
of service.' Was promoted at differ- 
ent times to first lieutenant and 
lieutenant-colonel, but was not mus- 
tered in the latter grade. Partici- 
pated in several skirmishes, about 
Georgetown and Hall's Hill, Va., in 
the fall and winter of 1861; after- 
wards in the battles of Y'orktown, 
Hanover Court House, Seven Days' 
Fight, second Bull Run, Antietam, 
Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, 
Aldie, Gettysburg, Sheppardstown, 
]\Iine Run, Rappahannock Station, 
Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Laurel 
Hill, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg, 
besides a number of minor engage- 
ments, being with the regiment, 
when it was a part of the Fifth 
Corps of the Army of the Potomac, 
in every battle in which it was en- 
gaged ; mustered out at the expira- 
tion of the term of service, Sept. 2, 
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1859. Ainsworth Emery Blunt: 
July 12, 1861, Mr. Blunt, then re- 
siding in Cleveland, Tenn., as presi- 
dent of the Masonic Female Insti- 
tute, was invited to leave the State, 
the rebels being in the majority; 
he complied with the invitation, 
and on July 17 crossed the Ohio, 
having barely escaped with his life; 
his property was plundered by the 
rebels; after teaching in Galesburg, 
111., to December, 1802, he left that 
position to join the army at Fort 
Dennison, near Cincinnati, 0. ; en- 
listed Dec. 13, 1862, as a private in 
the First East Tennessee Cavalry, 
which was commanded by the son 
of President Andrew Johnson, the 
lieutenant-colonel of the regiment 
being a son of Parson Brownlow; 
five days after his enlistment he 
was commissioned first lieutenant 
of Company F, and appointed com- 
missary of the regiment, but soon 
after was promoted to the office of 
captain, receiving his commission 
Jan. 11, 1863; was engaged in 
very many skirmishes in Tennessee, 
in the vicinity of Nashville up to 
the battle of Stone River; after 
the battle the regiment was engaged 
mostly in scouting from Miirfrees- 
boro to Bridgeport, Ala., when Cap- 
tain Blunt was compelled to resign 
by reason of disability. He after- 
w^ards entered the army a second 
time, being commissioned as cap- 
tain and doing duty in the secret 
service of the government until the 
close of the war. 

1859. Charles Whiting Carroll: 
Was commissioned July 20, 1801, 
first lieutenant in the Eighteenth 
Regiment Massachvisetts Volun- 
teers, served with his regiment from 
August, 1861, to March, 1862, in 
the Army of the Potomac before 
Washington, when the regiment 
went to the Peninsula and took 
part in the siege of Yorktown and 
in the campaign before Richmond ; 
was commissioned captain Oct. 29, 
1801; in July, 1862, he joined the 
army of General Pope on the Rap- 



pahannock; while in the thickest 
of the light in the second Bull Run 
battle he was shot through the body, 
lingered for hours after his wound, 
and died on the battlefield Mon- 
day night, Sept. 9, 1862. 

1859. Phineas Sanborn Conner: 
Was appointed Nov. 25, 1801, act- 
ing assistant surgeon in the U. S. 
Army, and assigned to duty at Co- 
lumbian Hospital, Washington, 
D.C., remaining thereuntil June 14, 
1802. On the 10th of April, 1S62, 
was commissioned assistant surgeon 
U. S. Army, and on March 13, 
1865, brevetted captain and major 
U. S. Army, resigning Aug. 1, 1866. 
Was on duty in charge of Carver 
Hospital, Washington, D. C, from 
the middle of June, 1862, until 
September 17, when he was ordered 
to the Antietam battlefield, where 
he remained three weeks, after 
which he was ordered to the Depart- 
ment of the Gulf, being stationed 
at New Orleans until July, 1864; 
during his services in New Orleans 
he M^as in charge of the University 
and St. James hospitals, and for 
several months was medical inspec- 
tor of the Thirteenth Army Corps. 
From September, 1864, to October, 
1805, was post surgeon at Gover- 
nor's Island, New York Harbor, 
and from October, 1865, to resigna- 
tion was in Raleigh, N. C, the latter 
six months of the time being act- 
ing medical director. Department 
of North Carolina. 

1859. Edward Cowles: Having 
passed the examination for the 
Medical Corps of the regular army, 
in 1863, was commissioned assistant 
surgeon U. S. Army June 13, 1863. 
His first assignment to duty was 
at Harrisburg, Pa., arriving there 
during the battle of Gettysburir. 
He received orders to organize a 
hospital in the Mulberry street 
schoolhouse, and two days after it 
was filled with wounded soldiers 
from that battle. He had charge of 
the hospital as surgeon until it was 
closed in December, 1863, being or- 



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dered to the Army of the Potomac, 
which was in winter quarters in 
Virginia. He served with the 
Fourteenth United States Infantry 
and other regiments in the regular 
brigade, of the Fifth Army Corps, 
was with the Army of the Potomac, 
in General Grant's campaign in the 
spring of 1864, from the battle of 
the Wilderness to Petersburg, when 
he was taken sick with pneumonia 
and was absent from the field two 
months; he was again with the 
army at the battle of Hatcher's 
Run, in October, and until the end of 
the war, except a few months' ser- 
vice with troops sent to New York 
at the time of the presidential elec- 
tion, in November, and during the 
following winter. At the close of 
the war he was surgeon-in-chief of 
Provost-Marshal General ilacy's 
brigade at headquarters from Appo- 
mattox to its last camp at Arling- 
ton, and continued with General 
Meade's staff until the army was 
disbanded at Washington; was 
brevetted for meritorious services 
during the war. After the war he 
was post surgeon at Fort Independ- 
ence, Boston Harbor, for one year; 
and in 1865 was assigned to duty 
in the office of medical director, at 
General Sheridan's headquarters. 
Fifth Military District, New Or- 
leans, La. Tlie duty consisted in in- 
specting camps and transport ships 
at the time of an epidemic of chol- 
era and yellow fever, which con- 
tinued the next year throughout the 
Gulf States. In the spring of 1866 
he was sent to Fort Browri, Tex., 
near Matamoras, Mex., where he 
had the yellow fever. For two 
years he was the chief medical of- 
ficer of the District of the Rio 
Grande; in 1869 he was ordered to 
Fort Preble, Portland Harbor, Me., 
where he served as post surgeon for 
two years; resigned from the army 
in 1872, with the rank of cap- 
tain and assistant surgeon, hav- 
ing served continuously for nine 
years. 



1859. James Henry Deney: Was 
commissioned Nov. 6, 1863, assist- 
ant surgeon Second Massachusetts 
HeaA-y Artillery; ordered to Fort 
O'Rourke, near Norfolk, Va., and, 
after remaining there a short time, 
was detailed to the Fort at Ply- 
mouth, N. C, to assume medical 
charge of the two companies of the 
regiment, and, in addition thereto, 
two companies of the Eighty-first 
New York. He remained on this 
duty till April 20, 1864, at which 
date the whole garrison were 
taken prisoners, after repeatedly 
repelling the enemy, and after 
desperate action lasting from April 
17 to April 20; was detained 
as prisoner of war at Macon, Savan- 
nah, Ga., and Charleston, S. C, 
where he was placed with four other 
surgeons and two chaplains under 
fire of our batteries for three weeks. 
The Plymouth prisoners were sent 
to Andersonville, and Surgeon 
Deney, after remaining there a day, 
was sent to Macon, Ga., and there 
gave attention to such few prisoners 
as required medical service; was 
in engagements at Rainbow Bluff, 
Coleraine, and on various expedi- 
tions; and was acting post surgeon 
at Plymouth until about June 1, 
1865, when he was ordered to New- 
bern, N. C. ; was on duty there until 
about July 10, when the regiment 
was ordered to garrison Fort 
Fisher; Sept. 10 was ordered to 
Boston for muster out of service. 

1859. Chase Hall Dickinson: 
Enlisted, at Chicago, in the Chicago 
Mercantile Battery Aug. 20, 1862, 
and served until 1864 in that or- 
ganization. He was in the follow- 
ing battles: Chickasaw Bayou, 
first attack on Vicksburg, Arkansas 
Post, Magnolia Hill, Champion Hill, 
Black River Bridge, Jackson, siege 
of Vicksburg, siege of Jackson, 
Mansfield and Sabine Cross Roads 
in the Red River campaign. In 
1864 Mr. Dickinson was commis- 
sioned acting quartermaster, with 
the rank of captain, on the recom- 



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mendation of Major-General Ran- 
som; was assigued to duty in tlie 
Department of the Gulf, and was 
located at New Orleans, Mobile, and 
Pensacohi; finally as chief quarter- 
master of the Department of Flor- 
ida and South Alabama; mustered 
out of service Jan. 27, 1866, Died 
March 14, 1893. 

1859. Lucien Bonaparte Eaton: 
Was commissioned second lieu- 
tenant Company I, Sixty-fifth Regi- 
ment Ohio Volunteers, Oct. 5, 1861, 
at Columbus, 0. ; promoted to first 
lieutenant Oct. 22, 18G1, and to cap- 
tain, Jan. 26, 1863; resigned May 
18, 1S65; commissioned lieutenant- 
colonel Sixty-ninth United States 
Colored Infantry March 17, 1865, 
and served till May 16, 1865; was 
for several months, after being 
mustered into the service, engaged 
in the active movements in Ken- 
tucky and Tennessee, and returned 
to Louisville, from which place he 
joined in the campaign in 1862, pro- 
ceeding to Nashville and Corinth ; 
was in the battles of Perryville, 
Stone River, Charleston, Chieka- 
mauga, and in a final assault on 
Missionary Ridge ; was also with 
the Army of Sherman in its march 
towards Atlanta; in June, 1864, was 
ordered to Arkansas, and served 
there until the close of the war. 

1859. Roger Sherman Greene: 
Enlisted September, 1862, and was 
appointed at once second lieutenant 
Company I, Third Missouri Volun- 
teers, and served in that regiment 
until August, 1863, in the opera- 
tions on the Mississippi and the 
Arkansas rivers, and around Vicks- 
burg; in an assault during the 
siege of Vicksburg he was seriously 
wounded; in March, 1863, he was 
appointed first lieutenant, and in 
August of the same year, captain 
of Company C, Fifty-first United 
States Colored Volunteers ; with 
this regiment he served until after 
the close of the war, and was dis- 
charged on account of sickness in 
November, 1865. 



1859. Joseph Williston Grosve- 
nor: Was connuissioned, by Gov. 
William Sprague of Rhode Island, 
assistant surgeon Eleventh Rhode 
Island Volunteers, Oct. 1, 1862. 
The first encampment was at Miners 
Hill, a few miles from Washing- 
ton; on Jan. 14, 1863, the regiment 
was ordered to move a few miles 
and camp near Camp Convalescent, 
Va. ; was on duty at this place three 
months; on April 15, the regiment 
embarked on the government trans- 
port for Norfolk, Va. ; after two 
months' service in that vicinity the 
regiment was ordered to York- 
town, and after short service there 
embarked for home July 3, the term 
of enlistment having expired. Dr. 
Grosvenor, having been mustered 
out of the regiment, was commis- 
sioned assistant surgeon in the 
Third Rhode Island HeaAy Artil- 
lery July 8, 1863 ; I'oined the regi- 
ment Sept. 4, at Hilton Head, S. C, 
and after a few weeks' service at 
that point was ordered to Fort Pu- 
laski, to take charge of the hospital 
at that place; from there was or- 
dered to forts on Morris Island, 
opposite Charleston, remaining 
there until Jan. 10, 1865, when he 
was ordered to Folly Island, to take 
charge of the hospitals there. Soon 
after Sherman reached Charleston, 
on his march to the sea, Dr. Gros- 
venor, believing that there would be 
but little more service required, 
resigned, and was mustered out 
March 8, 1865. 

1859. Albert James Hersey: 
Was commissioned captain of Com- 
pany B, Sixteenth New^ Hampshire 
Volunteers, Nov. 4, 1862, to date 
Oct. 29, 1862; served with his regi- 
ment in the Department of the Gulf 
under Gen. N. P. Banks, until after 
the fall of Port Hudson, when tlie 
term of service of the regiment 
expired and he was mustered out 
Aug. 20, 1863. In its term of nine 
months' service the regiment suf- 
fered greatly from sickness and was 
in three engagements. 



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1859. Isaac Wallingford Hobbs: 

Enlisted in Company F, Fourth 
New Hampshire Volunteers, Aug. 
2, 1861; was elected first lieutenant 
at the organization of the company 
Sept. 20 ; was ordered first to Wash- 
ington, then to South Carolina, on 
the Port Royal expedition, and af- 
terwards to Florida. In the fall 
of 1862 he was again in South Caro- 
lina, and engaged in the battle of 
Pocotaligo. During the spring of 
1863 he was in the operations of 
Folly Island and Morris Island, 
where he was much of the time 
under fire for several weeks. In the 
spring of 1864 he was in the Army 
of the James, in the fighting around 
Bermuda-Hundred and Petersburg, 
and was in the battle of Cold Har- 
bor; was promoted to captain Com- 
pany A, Dec. 1, 1863; while in the 
Army of the Potomac was severely 
wounded near Petersburg, Va., July 
18, 1864. In August, 1864, being 
the only captain on duty, he was 
placed in command of his regiment, 
and so remained until the regiment 
was mustered out at the expiration 
of its term of service Nov. 7, 1864. 
In January, 1865, he received an 
appointment as captain of Company 
H, Eighth Regiment United States 
Veteran Volunteers, and was for 
several months on duty around 
Washington; mustered out of ser- 
vice April, 1866. 

1859. Reeves Leonard: Was mus- 
tered into service as captain of 
Company A, Ninth Regiment Mis- 
souri Volunteers, at Sturgeon, Mo.; 
was promoted to major June 4, 
1863; resigned May 9, 1865. Died, 
1878. 

1859. George "Washington 
Quimby: Was commissioned first 
lieutenant Company D, Fourth 
Vermont Volunteers, Sept. 4. 1861; 
was promoted to captain March 20, 
1862; was in General McClellan's 
campaign on the Peninsula, at the 
battle of Lee's Mills, Fair Oaks, and 
in the Seven Days' Fight before 
Richmond, and was in the force 



that covered the retreat of General 
Pope in the second Bull Run battle. 
He was instantly killed at the bat- 
tle of Fredericksburg Dec. 13, 1862, 
the regiment being then attached to 
Franklin's Grand Division. The 
chaplain of the regiment says: 
" He fought with iron courage 
where the leaden hail had been 
thickest through the day." 

1859. George Eugene Ross: Was 
commissioned captain of Company 
A, Forty-fifth Ohio Volunteers, 
Aug. 1, 1862. Aug. 19, 1862, the 
regiment was ordered to Kentucky, 
and reached Lexington in Novem- 
ber, where he was promoted to major 
of his regiment. March 13, 1863, 
the regiment was in the battle of 
Dutton's Hill, being opposed by 
General Pegram's cavalry; about 
this time the regiment being infan- 
try was changed to mounted rifle- 
men; on leaving Lexington Major 
Ross took command of the regiment, 
and kept it much of the time there- 
after; was commissioned lieuten- 
ant-colonel April, 1863, and was 
in command of the regiment in the 
pursuit and capture of John Mor- 
gan and his raiders; resigned on 
account of ill health Aug. 5, 1864. 
Died May 29, 1887. 

1859. Luther Tracy Townsend: 
Enlisted October, 1862, as private 
in the Sixteenth New Hampshire 
Volunteers ; was commissioned ad- 
jutant Oct. 30. The regiment was 
assigned to the Banks' Expedition 
in the Department of the Gulf, and 
was attached to the corps which 
made the first advance on Port 
Hudson March, 1863. From there 
the regiment was ordered to Ateha- 
falya Bayou, and captured Fort 
Burton. In June the regiment re- 
turned to Port Hudson and partici- 
pated in the siege of that strong- 
hold and was among the first to 
enter after its capture July 9. At 
the expiration of his term of ser- 
vice Lieutenant Townsend was of- 
fered the position of colonel of a 
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mustered out of the service Aug. 20, 
18G3. 
1859. Wheelock Graves Veazey: 
Enlisted as private in Company A, 
Third Vermont Volunteers, May, 
18G1, and on the organization of the 
company was elected captain. Au- 
gust 10, following, was promoted 
to the rank of major, and after- 
wards, on the recommendation of 
Gen. ■' Baldy " Smith, he was com- 
missioned lieutenant-colonel, Aug. 
13, 1SG2. On September 7 he was 
appointed colonel of the Sixteenth 
Regiment Vermont Volunteers (a 
nine months' regiment), and com- 
manded it during its term of ser- 
vice. During the more than two 
years of his military experience 
Colonel Veazey took part in all the 
battles of the Army of the Potomac, 
and on several occasions was placed 
in command of regiments besides 
his own. At Gettysburg, July 1, 
2 and 3, 1863, the Sixteenth Ver- 
mont was attached to the First 
Army Corps under General Double- 
day, forming a part of the Third 
Division. In the second day's bat- 
tle, near its close, his regiment was 
in the thickest of the fight between 
the corps of General Sickles and 
that of the rebels under General 
Hood. In this desperate and 
bloody struggle, the Sixteenth Ver- 
mont was largely instrumental in 
checking the final onset of the 
enemy. At the close of the second 
day's battle Colonel Veazey was 
appointed division field officer of 
the day, and during the night fol- 
lowing he had charge of the picket 
line, which was posted from the vil- 
lage of Gettysburg to the left to- 
wards Round Top, directly across 
the field where Sickles and Hood 
had fought the preceding day. On 
the third and last day of the de- 
cisive conflict, Colonel Veazey and 
his regiment occupied a position in 
front of tlie left centre, and received 
the first shock of Pickett's charge, 
an assault, which, in historic im- 
portance, has not been surpassed 



since the charge of the " Old 
Guard " at Waterloo. Pickett's 
men were mainly veteran Virgin- 
ians, the flower of the southern 
army, and had not previously been 
engaged. At first tliey marched to- 
wards the Union centre. Under fire 
of the Vermont soldiers in Stan- 
nard's brigade, of which Veazey's 
regiment formed a part, Pickett's 
colunui was deflected to the left, and 
received in flank the attack of the 
Thirteenth and Sixteenth Vermont 
regiments. The Confederate force 
crumbled and withdrew with a 
heavy loss. Veazey's leadership of 
his regiment did much for the suc- 
cess of the flank assaults, which 
decided the battle. After the charge 
on Pickett's flank, with quick mili- 
tary instinct he saw his chance to 
strike another advancing division of 
the enemy. He received permission 
from his chief to disregard a pre- 
vious order and to execute his own 
plan; he reformed liis lines with a 
change of front, charged back over 
four hundred yards, struck the 
enemy in the flank, and made large 
captures of men and colors and 
arms. Colonel Veazey had a large 
share in repelling the flnal Confed- 
erate attack made under Wilcox. 
Marching across the fleld under a 
heavy fire of artillery he attacked 
W^ilcox's flank, and, pressing on, 
captured two stands of colors and 
hundreds of prisoners. By vote of 
the congress of the United States 
Colonel Veazey received a medal of 
honor in recognition of his gallant 
service. With health badly shat- 
tered Colonel Veazey returned to 
Vermont in 1SG3, with his regiment, 
at the expiration of its term of ser- 
vice, and resumed the practice of 
law. Died :March 22, ISOS. 
1859. Peleg Wadsworth: Was 
commissioned in July, 1SG3, acting 
assistant surgeon United States 
Volunteers, and served as such, on 
hospital duty, at Frederick City 
and Annapolis, Md., until October, 
1863; from the latter date to 



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March, 1865, was resident surgeon, 
at Quartermaster Hospital, Wash- 
ington, D. C. From March to July, 
1865, served as acting assistant 
surgeon in the navy, being attached 
to tlie Potomac flotilla, and on duty 
at the Washington navy yard. 
1859. John Milton Bancroft, 
C.S.D. : Was mustered into service 
in Fourth Michigan Infantry June 
20, 1861, and left immediately for 
Washington; during the battle of 
Bull Run the regiment was sta- 
tioned at Fairfax Station and Fair- 
fax Court House, and did effective 
work in organizing the stragglers 
as they returned from that battle ; 
August 8 the regiment was assigned 
to the brigade of Gen. William T. 
Sherman; during September and 
October they were engaged in 
erecting fortifications in the vi- 
cinity of Hall's Hill and Miner's 
Hill. On the 31st of October 
Bancroft was detailed to report 
with six men to Gen. Fitz John 
Porter, and was sent by him to Pro- 
fessor Lowe at Washington, for ser- 
vice in the Balloon Corps. In June, 
1862, he rejoined his regiment and 
served with it during the battles on 
the Peninsula. The regiment did 
effective service, losing a large num- 
ber in killed and wounded; Colonel 
Woodbury was among the killed. 
During the second battle of Bull 
Run, the regiment was doing picket 
duty and was not actively engaged in 
the^battle. On the 28th of October, 
1862, Mr. Bancroft was commis- 
sioned as first lieutenant, and as- 
signed to Company K ; the regi- 
ment was engaged in the battle 
of Fredericksburg Dec. 13 and 14, 
1862, and in the battle of Chan- 
eellorsville in the following May, 
and also in the battle of Gettysburg 
July 2 and 3, same year, and was 
in all the engagements of the Army 
of the Potomac until mustered out 
on the 30th of June, 1864. Several 
weeks later Lieutenant Bancroft 
was offered the position of major in 
the reorganized Fourth Regiment, 



but his health would not warrant 
accepting the commission. 

1859. William Alfred Barnard, 
C.S.D. : Enlisted Aug. 9, 1862, ser- 
geant major Twentieth Michigan 
Infantry; promoted to second lieu- 
tenant Jan. 27, 1863; first lieuten- 
ant Jan. 31, 1864; taken prisoner 
near Petersburg, Va., July 30, 1864; 
paroled March 1, 1865; captain, 
April 29, 1865; honorably dis- 
charged May 5, 1865; was in six- 
teen of the hardest fought battles 
of the rebellion, and was for seven 
months in the Confederate prison 
at Columbia, S. C. While there 
he suffered unspeakable hardships 
from starvation and privations 
from which his health, in a meas- 
ure, was never recovered. Died 
May 2, 1874. 

1859. Chester Williams Eaton, 
C.S.D.: Enlisted on the 19th of 
September, 1862, Fiftieth Regi- 
ment Massachusetts Volunteer In- 
fantry; discharged Aug. 24, 1863, 
at the expiration of term of service. 
The regiment served in the Depart- 
ment of the Gulf, and participated 
in the campaign ending with the 
surrender of Port Hudson, La. 

1859. William Pitt Marshall, 
C.S.D.: Enlisted in Company H, 
Eighteenth Regiment New Hamp- 
shire Volunteers, Feb. 28, 1865, for 
one year, and died of disease in hos- 
pital at City Point, Va., March 29, 
1865. 

1859. James Munroe Merrow, 
D.M.C. : W^as commissioned assist- 
ant surgeon Second Regiment New 
Hampshire VoKmteers June 10, 
1861 ; promoted to surgeon Oct. 2, 
1861, and mustered out with the 
regiment June 21, 1864. 

The regiment was commanded, 
when mustered into service, by Col. 
Oilman Marston, D.C., 1837, and 
the lieutenant-colonel was Francis 
S. Fisk, D.C., 1843, while the last 
colonel was Jacob N. Patterson, D.C., 
1860. Died, 1870. 

1858. Asa Flanders Pattee, 
D.M.C. : Was commissioned in 



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September, 18G4, acting assistant 
surgeon U. S. Army, and was con- 
nected with two division hospitals 
at Alexandria, Va., until April, 
18G5, when he was mustered out of 
the service. Died May 31, 1897. 

1859. John Milton Rand, D.M.C. : 
Was commissioned Feb. 3, 1804, as- 
sistant surgeon Twenty-ninth Regi- 
ment Connecticut Volunteers ; in 
about two months was detailed as 
operating surgeon in the Tenth 
Corps Field Hospital; in Septem- 
ber, same year, was put in 
charge of the Twenty-fifth Corps 
Hospital; was promoted to surgeon, 
by order of General Butler, Nov. 
23, 1864, but remained in charge 
of the Twenty-fifth Corps Hospital 
during the remainder of the war; 
was among the first to enter Rich- 
mond with the general command- 
ing; was in charge of the above 
named hospital at the time of the 
three days' battle of Deep Bottom, 
when 1300 men were operated on 
and sent to Fort Monroe ; was mus- 
tered out of service at Brownsville, 
Tex., Oct. 24, 1865. 

1859. Henry Hilliard Smith, 
D.M.C. : Was commissioned acting 
assistant surgeon U. S. Na\'y Nov. 
20, 1863; served on U. S. S. 
" Thomas Freeborn." Resigned April 
21,- 1865. 

1859. Chas. Harper Tenney, 
D.M.C. : was commissioned assist- 
ant surgeon Seventh Regiment 
Vermont Vohmteers May 16, 1863, 
and resigned from the service Jan. 
20, 1864. 

During Surgeon Tenney's connec- 
tion with the regiment it performed 
duty in the Department of the Gulf 
under General Butler, and served in 
Louisiana and Florida. Died, 1874. 

1859. Charles Clinton Topliff, 
D.M.C: Was commissioned assist- 
ant surgeon Nineteenth United 
States Colored Troops December, 

1863, and discharged November, 

1864. He is also reported to have 
been commissioned surgeon of the 
Sixth Maryland Volunteers, but no 



data has been obtained of such ser- 
vice. Died April 30, 1881, at Man- 
chester, N. 11. 
1859. Non-Grad. William Cogs- 
well: On the I'Jth of April, 1861, he 
recruited volunteers for a comjjany 
for the war, which he thinks was 
the first company that was raised; 
mustered into the United States 
service as captain of Company C, 
Second Massachusetts, on the 11th 
of May; was promoted lieutenant- 
colonel of the regiment after the 
battle of Antietam, and after the 
battle of Chancellorsville became 
colonel of the regiment ; served un- 
der McClellan, under Banks in his 
Shenandoah campaign, under Pope 
in the second Bull Run campaign, 
under McClellan again, Burnside, 
Hooker, and Meade, in the Army of 
the Potomac, until after Gettys- 
burg; the Twelfth Corps, with 
which the Second Massachusetts 
was connected, was transferred to 
Chattanooga, Tenn., after the battle 
of Chickamauga, and assigned to 
General Thomas's command; while 
under Thomas's command. Colonel 
Cogswell took part in the Atlanta 
campaign, and was connnander of 
the posts at Atlanta during its oc- 
cupation by the Union forces. 
After its capture he marched with 
Sherman through Georgia and the 
Carolinas ; after arriving at Savan- 
nah Colonel Cogswell was brevetted 
brigadier-general United States 
Volunteers, and was assigned by 
special order of the war Department 
to the command of the Third Bri- 
gade, Third Division, Twentieth 
Army Corps. He commanded a bri- 
gade during the campaign in the 
Carolinas to the surrender of John- 
ston at Raleigh : and rendered con- 
spicuous and gallant service in the 
battle of Averysboro, N. C. His 
command was in the Grand Review 
at Washington, May, 1865. and he 
was mustered out of service July 
25, 1865. Colonel Cogswell wag 
severely wounded in the left arm at 
the battle of Chancellorsville, and 



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slightly wounded at the battle of 
Antietam, Averysboro, and Ben- 
tonville, N. C. Died May 22, 1895, 
at Washington, D. C, while serv- 
ing in his fourth term as a member 
of congress. 

1859. Non-Grad. Geo. Henry Jor- 
dan, C.S.D. : Enlisted as sergeant 
of Company A, Twenty-seventh 
Regiment INIaine Volunteers, Sept. 
10, 18G2, for nine months; dis- 
charged July, 1863, at Portland, 
Me., by reason of the expiration of 
term of service. 

1860. James McMillan Ayer: En- 
listed as a private in Company B, 
Fifteenth Vermont Volunteers, Aug. 

. 25, 1862; was elected captain of 
the same company September 8, 
was mustered into service for nine 
months at Brattleboro, Vt., Oct. 22, 
1862; the regiment did duty in the 
defences of Washington, along the 
line of the Orange and Alexandria 
Railroad, during the fall of 1862, 
and in the winter of 1862 and 1863, 
and spring of 1863, till the latter 
part of June, when the brigade to 
which it was attached, under com- 
mand of Gen. Geo. J. Stannard, was 
ordered to join the First Corps of 
the Army of the Potomac, which it 
did on the first day of the battle of 
Gettysburg, July 1. On July 2 the 
regiment was ordered to relieve 
the Twelfth Vermont, which was 
guarding the wagon train of the 
army, and whose term of service 
had expired. Captain Ayer was 
mustered out of service with his 
regiment Aug. 8, 18G3. Died Aug. 
22, 1892. 

1860. Albert Smith Bickmore: 
Enlisted as a private in tlie Forty- 
fourth Massachusetts Vohmteers 
Aug. 25, 1862, for nine months; in 
October was sent to Newbern, N. C, 
and did service in the Department 
of North Carolina till June, 1863, 
and on the 18th of that month was 
mustered out at Boston. 

1860. William Ellingwood Bun- 
ten: Td the early part of August, 
1862, opened a recruiting office at 



Concord, N. H. Under the call of 
President Lincoln for 300,000 men, 
a company was organized Sept. 22, 
1862, and Mr. Bunten was elected 
captain of Company H, Fourteenth 
New Hampshire Volunteers. The 
regiment was on duty during the 
first year of the service in the de- 
fences of W^ashington. In the sum- 
mer of 1863 Captain Bunten was 
in command of the guard at the Old 
Capitol Prison every alternate day; 
during the winter of 1862 and 1863 
the regiment was stationed at Pools- 
ville, Md., and remained until 
some time in April, when it was 
ordered to the front ; these orders, 
however, were countermanded, and 
tlie regiment remained at Washing- 
ton all that summer. Captain Bun- 
ten being detailed most of the time 
for duty at the Old Capitol Prison; 
was mustered out Sept. 25, 1863. 
Died Dec. 18, 1897. 

1860. Charles Henry Camp: Was 
commissioned first lieutenant of 
Company B, Eighth New Hamp- 
shire Volunteers, Dec. 20, 1861. 
The regiment was attached to Gen- 
eral Butler's Gulf Expedition. 
Lieutenant Camp served in this 
Department, in the Nineteenth 
Army Corps, for about two years, 
closing his military life in the sur- 
render of Port Hudson ; resigned 
Aug. 6, 1863, on accoimt of physi- 
cal disability. Was appointed cap- 
tain of Company D, same regiment, 
Sept. 1, 1864, but declined the ap- 
pointment. 

1860. George Ephraim Chamber- 
lin: Was elected captain of Com- 
pany A, Eleventh Vermont Volun- 
teers, Aug. 12, 1862; promoted to 
major on Aug. 26, before the regi- 
ment left the State; the regiment 
Avas ordered to Washington, and on 
arrival there was changed from in- 
fantry to hea\y artillery, and, until 
May, 1864, garrisoned a number of 
forts north of Washington, during 
which time Major Chamberlin was 
in command at either Fort Lincoln 
or Fort Totten; his reputation was 



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that of a thorough disciplinarian 
and accomplished soldier. In May, 
1S04, tue regiment was ordered to 
join the Army of the Potomac, 
which was then fighting its way 
through the wilderness towards 
Richmond; it was assigned to the 
Vermont Brigade, which General 
Ayres said " could out march and 
out fight " any brigade in the army. 
About this time Major Chamber lin 
was promoted to the office of lieu- 
tenant-colonel, and was in command 
of his regiment nearly all the time 
until his death. He fought with 
gallantry in all the battles, when 
the Sixth Corps was ordered to 
Washington to repel the Army of 
General Early. For a few days the 
regiment was in its old quarters in 
the forts, and was preparing for 
permanency, when it was ordered to 
join General Sheridan in the Shen- 
andoah Valley. On the morning of 
Sunday, Aug. 21, near Charleston, 
Va., while engaged in writing 
to his wife, the order came to 
Colonel Chamberlin to have his 
regiment fall into line of battle. 
The rebel General Early fell upon 
the skirmish line of the Vermont 
Brigade, and almost before the 
regiment was under fire, Colonel 
Chamberlin was shot through the 
body; he was removed to the hos- 
pital at Sandy Hook, Md., and in 
the early morning of Aug. 22, died 
in the arms of Chaplain Little, his 
classmate. There was something 
almost pathetic in the last words 
of his letter to his wife, which was 
never finished: "We are in God's 
hands, and his will is better than 
our will ; Ave will love him and 
trust him and be satisfied." Col. 
A. F. Walker, who succeeded him in 
command, says of him, in his his- 
tory of the Vermont Brigade : " He 
was surely ' sans peur et sans re- 
proche; ' exaggeration was impos- 
sible. In speaking of one who of- 
fered such remarkable devotion 
upon his country's altar, Vermont 
should and always will cherish his 



memory as that of one of her noblest 
and bravest sons." 

1860. George Henry Chandler: 
Was comnussioned Aug. 13, 18(32, 
adjutant of the Ninth New Hamp- 
shire Volunteers at Concord; Oct. 
11, 18G3, was promoted to major at 
Lexington, Ky. ; served at South 
Mountain and Antietam and at 
Fredericksburg, at the siege of 
Vicksburg, and through Burnside's 
East Tennessee campaign, and at 
the battle of Spottsylvania; on the 
12th of May, 18G4, was wounded 
by a musket ball through the right 
thigh, which disabled him from ac- 
tive duty during the remainder of 
his time; was mustered out of the 
regiment at Concord June 10, 1SG5, 
having been commissioned lieu- 
tenant-colonel, to which rank he 
could not be mustered on account 
of depletion of his regiment. Died 
at Canterbury, N. H., Aug. 12, 
1883. 

1860. Samuel Quarles Dearborn: 
Enlisted as a private in Company D, 
Eighteenth New Hampshire Volun- 
teers, Sept. 20, 18G4, for one year; 
served during that time at City 
Point, Va., and in Washington, 
D. C, during nearly the whole time 
of his service; was ordered to the 
front, near Petersburg, in December, 
1864; mustered out June 10, 18G5. 

1860. Daniel Ashley Dickinson: 
was appointed acting assistant pay- 
master U. S. Navy May 15, 18G3, 
and assigned to the steamer " Free- 
born " of the Potomac flotilla ; 
was on this steamer during the 
wholie of his term of service, resign- 
ing Jan. 2, 18G5. Died Feb. 12, 
in02. 

1860. Wmiam Kelly Fletcher: 
Was acting assistant surgeon U. S. 
Army at Wliite House, Va., from 
May 18 to July, 1SG2. From Jan- 
uary, 1863, to December 25, 1864, he 
served in a similar capacity at and 
near Washington. 

1860. Charles Lee Foster: Was 
appointed hospital steward in the 
Forty-seventh Massachusetts Vfll- 



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unteers Sept. 3, 1862; mustered into 
service Oct. IG, 1802, at Boxford, 
Mass. Tlie reyiment was attached 
to Grcneral Banks's expedition, and 
served in the Department of the 
Gulf. Foster was taken ill in New 
Orleans before the expiration of 
term of service, and died at Univer- 
sity Hospital, Xew Orleans, Aug. 8, 
1SG3. 
1860. Oscar Adrian Hale: Was 
commissioned captain of Company 
D, Sixth Regiment Vermont Volun- 
teers, Oct. 8, 1861; promoted to 
major Jan. 12, 1863; to lieutenant- 
colonel March 18, 1863; mustered 
out Oct. 28, 1864. The Sixth Ver- 
mont, on being mustered into the 
United States service, was ordered 
to Washington and on the 22d of 
October, 1861, joined the Vermont 
Brigade, completing its organiza- 
tion. Colonel Hale participated in 
all the battles in which the regi- 
ment was engaged until he was se- 
verely woimded in a skirmish at 
Chariestown, W. Va., August, 1864. 
In the same engagement Lieut. -Col. 
G. E. Chamberlin of the Eleventh 
Vermont, and a classmate of Col- 
onel Hale's, was mortally wounded. 
The First Vermont Brigade was in 
the battles of Warwick Creek, Lee's 
Mills, Williamsburg, Savage's Sta- 
tion, White Oak Swamp, Antietam, 
Fredericksburg, Marye's Heights, 
and all the battles of the Army of 
the Potomac. During the Wilder- 
ness campaign of 1864 the Sixth 
Vermont fought desperately and 
suffered fearfully. Of 441 men go- 
ing into battle there were 69 killed 
and 127 wounded, almost one half. 
Colonel Barney was killed May 5, 
and the command devolved upon 
Lieutenant-Colonel Hale, who com- 
manded the regiment till he was 
wounded. He did not return to the 
regiment, but was mustered out 
with it at Brattleboro. In this 
Wilderness fight the Sixth lost 45 
per cent, while the Light Brigade 
at Balaklava lost 36.7 per cent. 
Died, 1867. 



1860. William Slade Herrick: 
Entered the U. S. Navy from Chi- 
cago in December, 1862, as a sea- 
man. Jan. 1, 1863, was promoted 
to the position of hospital steward; 
was in the engagement at Tunica 
Bend, below Natchez, Miss. Hi3 
service was on the gunboat " Gen- 
eral Bragg " of the Mississippi 
Squadron; left the service in Feb- 
ruary, 1865. Died May 10, 1885. 
1860. Arthur Little: Was com- 
missioned chaplain in the First 
Vermont Heavy Artillery Eleventh 
Vermont Volunteers March 19, 
1863, the regiment then being on 
garrison duty at Wasliington, occu- 
pying forts to the north and east of 
the city. The regiment remained 
there till early in May, 1864; 
just after the Battle of the Wilder- 
ness, the regiment crossed the Poto- 
mac for the front, and moved with 
the army in its celebrated flank 
movement across the James, and 
took position with it before Peters- 
burg. Chaplain Little was actively 
engaged in assisting the surgeon in 
caring for the wounded at Cold 
Harbor, where his brother-in-law, 
Capt. E. B. Frost, Tenth Vermont 
(Dart. Col. 1858), was mortally 
wounded. Also took part in Sheri- 
dan's campaign in the Shenandoah 
Valley, and was with his Lieut-Col. 
George E. Chamberlin, of the same 
class (1860), when he was mortally 
wounded, August 23. As at Cold 
Harbor he assisted in caring for the 
suffering at Winchester and Cedar 
Creek. Returning to the Army of 
the Potomac he spent the winter of 
1864 and 1865 before Petersburg, 
During that time he actively con- 
ducted religious services which were 
productive of good results. He was 
present at the capture of Richmond, 
and continued with his regiment 
till Lee's surrender. He was mus- 
tered out the last of June, 1865, at 
Burlington, Vt. In 1867 he was 
chaplain of the First New Hamp- 
shire Militia, Gen. J. N. Patterson 
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1860. Charles Little: Was ap- 
pointed hospital steward in the 
Fifteenth Vermont Volunteers Oct. 
8, 1802; mustered into service Oct. 
22, 1SG2, for nine months; the 
colonel of the regiment being Red- 
field Proctor, afterwards governor 
of Vermont, and later secretary of 
war, in the cabinet of President 
Harrison. The regiment served in 
the Department of Washington, 
under General Casey, until just be- 
fore the battle of Gettysburg, when 
it joined the First Army Corps. Mr. 
Little served with the regiment 
during its entire term of service 
and was mustered out at Brattle- 
boro, Vt., Aug. 5, 1863. On the 22d 
of December, 1863, he was ap- 
pointed assistant surgeon of the 
U. S. Na"\y, and served on the 
steamer " Winona " on the Caro- 
lina coast; mustered out of service 
in September, 1805. Died Nov. 
16, 1869. 

1860. Henry Clay Newell: Was 
drafted and accepted as a soldier 
from Vermont in August, 1863; was 
commissioned by Governor Hol- 
brook as assistant surgeon of the 
Third Vermont Volunteers Oct. 2, 
in the same year; and was sta- 
tioned at Brattleboro as surgeon-in- 
charge of the barracks until May 
14, 1864, when he was ordered to 
join his regiment then at Spottsyl- 
vania, Va., and was with it in all 
its engagements until March 18, 
1865, when by order of General 
Meade he was transferred to the 
hospital at City Point, Va., where 
he remained on duty until the close 
of the war. While at the above 
hospital Surgeon Newell had charge 
of two wards, and also medical 
charge of a colony of negro refugees 
located near by. For a time he was 
acting medical inspector of the 
artillery reserve; mustered out of 
the service Juoe 7, 1865. 

1860. Charles Edmund Parker: 
Was commissioned adjutant of the 
Seventh Regiment Vermont Volun- 
teers, with the rank of first lieu- 



tenant, Jan. 1, 1862; was promoted 
captain of Company E, same regi- 
ment, Dec. 9, 1862; resigned Oct. 
22, 1863 ; served with his regiment 
at Ship Island, Miss., New Orleans, 
La., Pensacola, Fla., until date of 
resignation. 

1860. Ezra Burleigh Parker: En- 
listed in Company L, First Rhode 
Cavalry, Dec. 6, 1861, and was ap- 
pointed first sergeant ; afterwards 
promoted to second lieutenant Aug. 
4, 1862, same company, and then to 
the position of adjutant Dec. 1, 
1862; was taken prisoner at Aldie, 
Va., June 18, 1863, and confined in 
Libby Prison until May, 1864. Im- 
mediately after his capture was 
promoted captain for gallant con- 
duct in the affair at Aldie; was 
exchanged in March, and in May 
resigned to accept a captaincy in 
the First New Hampshire Cavalry 
June 25, 1864; was mustered out 
with his regiment at Concord, N. 
H., Aug. 21, 1865. 

1860. George Parker: Was com- 
missioned captain of Company A, 
Sixth Regiment Vermont Volun- 
teers, Oct. 4, 1861, and resigned 
Oct. 21, 1862. Captain Parker's 
company was a portion of the force 
composing the right wing in the 
attack on the rebel lines at Lee's 
Mills April 6, 1862, the first time 
the regiment was under fire. 

For particulars of the record of 
this regiment see sketch of Col. 0. 
A. Hale, class 1860. 

1860. Joab Nelson Patterson: 
Enlisted April 20, 1861, from New 
Hampshire, as a private for three 
months' service ; only one regiment 
being accepted for three months' 
service, re-enlisted for three years, 
May 11, 1861, and raised a com- 
pany for the Second New Hamp- 
shire Regiment ; was commissioned 
first lieutenant of Company H in 
this regiment June 4, 1861 ; pro- 
moted captain May 23, 1862; lieu- 
tenant-colonel June 21, 1864: 
colonel Jan. 10, 1865; brevet briga- 
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mustered out with the regiment 
Dec. 19, 1865, his regiment being 
the first three years' regiment to 
leave New Hampshire and the last 
to return. Tlie regiment was at tlie 
first Bull Run battle; in Burnside's 
brigade, Hunter's division ; after 
that battle, was assigned to Hooker's 
brigade, and spent tlie winter of 
ISGl and 1862 along Budd's Ferry, 
in lower Maryland; took part in 
the Peninsular campaign, being in 
the First Brigade, Second Division, 
Third Corps; engaged in the siege 
of Yorktown, battles of Williams- 
burg, Fair Oaks, Glendale, Malvern 
Hill, and all of the Seven Days' 
Fight ; ordered to join Pope's army, 
and participated in the second Bull 
Run battle Aug. 29 and 30, 1802, 
and also in the Fredericksburg cam- 
paign December, 1862. The regi- 
ment was engaged at Gettysburg, 
where its losses at the Peach Or- 
chard were more than fifty per cent 
of those engaged. The regiment 
remained Avith the Army of the 
Potomac until it arrived at Wash- 
ington, where, with the Fifth and 
Twelfth New Hampshire, it was de- 
tailed and sent to Point Lookout, 
Md., under command of Gen. Gil- 
man Marston (Dart. Col. 1837), to 
guard prisoners of war. General 
Patterson was provost marshal of 
the district from August, 18G3, to 
April, 1864, when the regiment was 
sent to Yorktown to join the army 
of the James, forming a part of the 
Second Brigade, Second Division, 
Eighteenth Army Corps; actively 
engaged in the Bermuda Hundred 
campaign; went to Cold Harbor, 
and was under Gen. William F. 
Smith. 

On the 8th of June, 18G4, the 
original members of the regiment 
were mustered out, except those who 
re-enlisted. All of the other com- 
missioned officers were mustered out 
except Patterson, who remained in 
command and was promoted at this 
time to lieutenant-colonel, and at 
different times was in command of 



a brigade, until mustered out of 
service. 

1860, John Tredick: Enlisted as a 
private in Company K, Eleventh 
New Hampshire Volunteers, Aug. 
15, 1802 ; served as Avard master and 
hospital steward; Avas discharged 
March 6, 1804, to accept appoint- 
ment as hospital steAvard in the 
regular army, and AA'as stationed 
near Covington, Ky., at Avhich place 
he Avas finally discharged Aug. 19, 
1865. Died May 18, 1881. 

1860. George Thompson White: 
Was appointed in July, 1801, quar- 
termaster sergeant Third Battalion 
Massachusetts Volunteer Rifles. 
Sept. 4, 1802, he Avas appointed 
second lieutenant Company E, One 
Hundred and Twenty-eighth New 
York Volunteers; Avas promoted 
first lieutenant May 27, 1803, and 
captain, April 1, 1865, and Avas 
mustered out July 12, 1865. 

He Avas at diff"erent times on staff 
duty as ordnance officer, judge ad- 
vocate, and assistant adjutant-gen- 
eral. In Sheridan's Shenandoah 
campaign he Avas put in command 
of the Pioneer Corps, Third Brigade, 
Second' Division, Nineteenth Array 
Corps. Soon after, at Cedar Creek, 
he AA'as appointed brigade commis- 
sary of subsistence on the staff of 
Gen. George H. Sharpe. When the 
brigade Avas disbanded at SaA'annah 
he became judge advocate of the 
District of Georgia on the staff of 
General Birge. Died Noa\ 25, 1884. 

1860. Ben Cyrus Brett, D.M.C.: 
Was commissioned in the fall of 
1861 assistant surgeon Twenty-first 
Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers, and 
continued Avith the regiment during 
its term of service; Avas Avith Gen- 
eral Sherman's expedition from 
Charleston to SaA'annah ; AA-as mus- 
tered out in the fall of 1864. 

1860. John Wingate Bucknam, 
D.M.C. : Was commissioned assist- 
ant surgeon Fiftli Ncav Hampshire 
Volunteers Oct. 22, 1801 ; surgeon, 
June 1, 1863; discharged Oct. 26, 
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New Hampshire see sketch of Wm. 
Child, D.M.C., 1857. Died Dec. 18, 
1S70. 

1860. Benjamin Franklin Eaton, 
D.M.C. : Was appointed liospital 
steward in the First New Hamp- 
shire Volunteers (a three months' 
regiment) ; upon the return of that 
regiment was commissioned assist- 
ant surgeon Third New Hampshire 
Volunteers Aug. 22, 1861, and re- 
signed on account of disability Oct. 
1, 1862, while the regiment was sta- 
tioned at Hilton Head, S. C. Died 
March 1, 1882, at Hartford, Vt. 

1860. William Henry Grant, 
D.M.C. : Was appointed acting as- 
sistant surgeon U. S. Army in Octo- 
ber, 1862; was on duty in Colum- 
bian Hospital, Washington, D. C, 
for about fourteen months, and for 
a few months in Lincoln Hospital, 
also for a short time in Baker's 
cavalry barracks, Washington ; dur- 
ing the remainder of his service, 
which expired in the fall of 1864, 
he was on duty at the prisoners of 
war camp, Point Lookout, Md. 

1860. David Comstock Moore, 
D.M.C. : Is reported to have been 
an acting assistant surgeon U. S. 
Army, but no record of his service 
has been obtained. Died, 1876. 

1860. Edwin Marcellus Noyes, 
D.M.C: Was commissioned second 
lieutenant Company C, Third Regi- 
ment Vermont Volunteers, May 23, 
1861; promoted to first lieutenant, 
same company, Nov. 7, 1861; died 
of disease Aug. 31, 1862. In the 
first skirmish in which the regiment 
participated near Lewinsville, Va., 
in September, 1861, one man was 
killed and one man mortally 
wounded and left within the rebel 
lines. Lieutenant Noyes, with 
twenty men, went back Avithin the 
rebel picket lines, ascertained the 
man had died, and brought his body 
back to camp. The soldier was a 
son of the noted mathematician, 
Zerah Colburn. 

1860. Hubert Sleeper, D.M.C: Was 
commissioned assistant surgeon Six- 



teenth Regiment New Hampshire 
Volunteers, March 18, 1863, and 
was ordered to proceed to New Or- 
leans, La., where the regiment was 
then stationed; joined the regiment 
at Brashear City, La. ; was with it 
at Fort Burton and at Baton Rouge, 
where large numbers of the regiment 
were taken sick, and it was ordered 
back to Brashear City to conva- 
lescent camp; June 28 that place 
was captured by the rebels, and 
Dr. Sleeper was held a prisoner till 
about August 1, when he was ex- 
changed; was mustered out Aug. 
31, 1863, by reason of expiration of 
the term of service of the regiment. 

1860. Francis Laban Towns, 
D.M.C. : Was commissioned assist- 
ant surgeon in the U. S. Army May 
28, 1861; surgeon, Oct. 3, 1866, 
with the rank of major; brevetted 
captain, major, and lieutenant-colo- 
nel March 13, 1865, for faithful and 
meritorious services. 

1860. George Edward Woodbury, 
D.M.C: Was appointed assistant 
surgeon Second D. C Infantrv Nov. 
14, 1862. Mustered out Sept. 12, 
1865, at Alexandria, Va. 

1860. Non-Grad. Edward Pay- 
son Jackson: Enlisted in Company 
D, Forty-fifth Regiment Massachu- 
setts Volunteers, and was mustered 
into the service of the United States 
on the 26th day of September, 1862, 
for nine months; discharged on the 
first day of July, 1863, by reason of 
the expiration of term of service. 
The regiment did duty in North 
Carolina, and was engaged in battle 
at Kinston, Whitehall, and Golds- 
lioro, and in several skirmishes. 

1860. Non-Grad. Frederick Au- 
gustus Kendall: Enlisted as a 
private in Company B, Eleventh 
Indiana Infantry, June 18, 1861; 
was transferred to Company T, First 
New Hampshire Infantry, July 23, 
1861, and was mustered out Aug. 9, 
1861. He was appointed second 
lieutenant Fourth New Hampshire 
Infantry Sept. 18, 1861; promoted 
first lieutenant Nov. 2, 1862, and 



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captain Sept. 27, 1864. He took 
part in the Port Royal expedition, 
and was in tlie Department of the 
South till April, 1864; participated 
in the operations against Forts 
Sumter and Wagner, and in the 
expedition to Florida, in Janviary, 
1864, and was engaged in the action 
at Pocotaligo, S. C; was trans- 
ferred to the Army of the James, 
and was engaged in the actions at 
Bermuda Hundred, Drury's Bluff, 
Cold Harbor, Explosion of the Mine, 
and battle of Fussel's Mills, Va. ; 
was also engaged in the capture of 
Fort Harrison and in the opera- 
tions terminating in the surrender 
of General Lee; was on duty as 
assistant commissary of musters, of 
the Third Division, Tenth Army 
Corps, from September, 1864, and on 
mustering duty at Richmond and 
Petersburg, Va., until Aug. 17, 1865, 
when he resigned his commission to 
take service in the army operating 
in southwestern Texas under Gen- 
eral Sheridan. He was mustered 
into service as captain of the Eighth 
United States Artillery (colored) 
Oct. 9, 1865, at Victoria, Tex., and 
was immediately assigned to duty 
as assistant commissary of musters 
for the district of the Rio Grande, 
where he served until mustered out 
of service March 10, 1866. He 
afterwards entered the regular ser- 
vice, July 28, 1866, as second lieu- 
tenant of the Fortieth Infantry, 
and served with his command in 
Virginia, North Carolina, Missis- 
sippi, and Louisiana until 1870, 
when he was ordered to Texas and 
served in the department for four 
years; and, in 1876, was detailed 
as professor of military science and 
tactics at the Brooks Military Acad- 
emy, where he served until 1879. 
March 2, 1867, he was brevetted 
first lieutenant and captain U. S. 
Army for gallant and meritorious 
services at Fort Harrison, Va. ; was 
promoted first lieutenant July 31, 
1867 ; transferred to the Twenty- 
fifth Infantry, 1869, and promoted 



captain March 22, 1879. Captain 
Kendall was relieved from duty in 
1880, and was retired because of 
disability incurred in the line of 
duty. 

1860. Non-Grad. John Adams 
Knowles: Entered the army in 
January, 1862, and was employed 
in the quartermaster's department 
in California, Colorado, and Ari- 
zona; returned to New York March, 
1862, and enlisted, July 9, 1862, as 
a private in the One Hundred and 
Twelfth New York Volunteers; 
served in Virginia, South Carolina, 
and Florida; was twice promoted 
in his regiment, and March 18, 1864, 
was appointed captain and commis- 
sary of subsistence; resigned Feb. 
16, 1865. 

1861. David Henry Brown: En- 
listed in the quartermaster's depart- 
ment U. S. Army at Nashville, 
Tenn., in April, 1864, serving till 
June in the office of Brig.-Gen. 
J. L. Donaldson, supervising quarter- 
master, and was then transferred to 
the office of Col. Jno. C. Crane, 
quartermaster in charge of military 
railroads, Military Division of the 
Mississippi. He left the service in 
January, 1865. 

1861. George Anson Bruce: Was 
elected first lieutenant Company B, 
■ Thirteenth New Hampshire Volun- 
teers, Sept. 27, 1862. He joined the 
Army of the Potomac and was pres- 
ent at the battle of Fredericksburg 
Dec. 13, 1862. Soon after he was 
appointed adjutant-general Third 
Brigade, Third Division, Ninth Army 
Corps. In the siege of Suffolk, Va., 
he took part in the attack on Long- 
street. He also participated in the 
Peninsular campaign, and May 30, 
1864, was promoted to captain Com- 
pany L, and joined the Army of the 
James under General Butler; was 
in the engagements at Swift's Creek, 
Kingsland Creek, and Drury's Bluff, 
and in the battles of Cold Harbor 
June 1 and 3, 1864; was in the suc- 
cessful attack on Petersburg June 
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near Petersburg he was three times 
wounded. He was also at Seven 
Pines Oct. 30, 1864. For galliuit 
and meritorious conduct he was suc- 
cessively brevetted captain, major, 
and lieutenant-colonel. During a 
large part of his term of service he 
was adjutant-general of brigade and 
division and judge advocate of di- 
vision, being on the staff of General 
Devens at the evacuation of Rich- 
mond, where he had the honor of 
being the first man to cross the 
Confederate lines and enter the city 
on the morning of April 3, 1865. 
Colonel Bruce's last service was as 
recorder of the commission to try all 
offences at Richmond. 

1861. Henry Mills Caldwell: Was 
commissioned captain Company F, 
Berdan's Second Regiment Sharp- 
shooters, Sept. 19, 1861. Joined the 
regiment at Washington, where he 
spent the winter of 1861-1862. In 
March, 1862, the regiment formed 
McDowell's advance in his movement 
towards Fredericksburg, via Manas- 
sas Junction. At Falmouth Com- 
pany F was detailed as provost 
guard of the town, and Captain 
Caldwell acted as provost marshal. 
Shortly after he was taken sick of 
typhoid fever, and died at Falmouth 
July 12, 1862. It is the universal 
testimony of his comrades that he 
was an unusually promising officer, 
and that the same thoroughness and 
laudable ambition to excel charac- 
terized him in the army as in 
college. 

1861. David Famum Cole: Was 
commissioned captain Company D, 
Twelfth Regiment Vermont Volun- 
teers Aug. 23, 1862. Mustered into 
United States service Oct. 4, 1862, 
at Brattleboro, Vt., for nine months. 
Mustered out July 14, 1863, at the 
same place. Nearly all tlie time of 
his service the Twelfth Vermont was 
in the defences of Washington, doing 
duty on the line of the Orange and 
Alexandria Railroad. The regiment 
was ordered to join the Army of the 
Potomac just before the battle of 



Gettysburg, and the brigade to which 
it was attached was engaged in that 
battle; but the regiment was or- 
dered to guard the wagon train of 
the Army of the Potomac, which it 
took to Westminster, jNld., July 2, 
1863. Though naturally averse to 
war Captain Cole carried into the 
army tlie same thoroughness and 
devotion to duty that had charac- 
terized him in college. At the close 
of his term of service he studied law 
for a while in Cleveland, 0. ; but 
his patriotic spirit gave him no rest 
till he re-entered the service, this 
time as major of the One Hundred 
and Seventh Colored infantry. He 
was mainly instrumental in raising 
the regiment, which was largely 
composed of former Kentucky 
slaves. He was assigned to the 
Army of the James, but was stricken 
with malarial fever and died Jan. 
7, 1865. In accordance with his ex- 
pressed wish, that his remains should 
rest in some soldiers' cemetery, he 
was buried at Arlington, Va., where 
representatives from four classes 
with him in college followed his re- 
mains to the grave. A beautiful 
monument bears his name, with the 
fitting epitaph, " He died as he had 
lived, a brave soldier and a Chris- 
tian gentleman." 

1861. Edmund Davis: Enlisted as 
corporal in Company I, Thirty-fifth 
Massachusetts Volunteers, in July, 
1862; mustered into the United 
States service August 16, and served 
with the Ninth Army Corps in the 
Army of the Potomac. At the battle 
of Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862, he was 
dangerously wounded in the riglit 
thigh while serving as one of the 
color guard. He was discharged on 
account of this wound May 11, 18G3, 
but did not recover till July, 1864. 
Died July 8, 1807. 

1861. George William Estabrook: 
Enlisted as a private in the Forty- 
fifth Massachusetts Volunteers (a 
nine months' regiment) in the fall 
of 1862; mustered into the United 
States service in October of the same 



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year; served in North and South 
Carolina, a part of the time in the 
Signal Corps, and was mustered 
out July, 18G3, at the expiration of 
his term of service. 

1861. Jasper Spurzheim Grant: 
Entered the service at Washington 
as assistant surgeon, and was as- 
signed to duty at Lincoln Hospital 
Oct. 17, 1863. In April, 1864, he 
was appointed to a clerkship in the 
paymaster general's office. The fol- 
lowing October he went on duty at 
Carver Hospital, Washington, and 
remained there till the next Janu- 
ary. Feb. 2, 1865, he was ordered 
to duty at Fort Saratoga. Here he 
continued till he died of disease 
Aug. 4, 1865. 

1861. George Enos Hodgdon: Was 
appointed lieutenant Company G, 
Tenth New Hampshire Volunteers, 
Sept. 18, 1862; resigned on account 
of ill health Feb. 14, 1863; was 
appointed second lieutenant Vet- 
eran Reserve Corps, Company I, 
Thirteenth Regiment, April 30, 
1864; discharged at Gallop's Island, 
Boston Harbor, Nov. 17, 1865. 
Died June 11, 1891, at Portsmouth, 
N. H. 

1861. Amos Byron Jones: Was 
commissioned captain of Company 
E, First Regiment United States 
Sharpsliooters, Aug. 6, 1861, the 
regiment composing a part of the 
celebrated Berdan's Sharpshooters. 
December 3, following, he was com- 
missioned major of the Second Regi- 
ment United States Sharpshooters. 
He was appointed colonel and aide- 
de-camp of volunteers in May, 1862, 
and as such served on the staff of 
Gen. J. C. Fremont. He was mus- 
tered out in 1865. 

1861. George Augustus Marden: 
Enlisted as a private Nov. 9, 1861, 
in Company G, Second Regiment 
Berdan's United States Sharp- 
shooters, and when the regiment 
was mustered into service was ap- 
pointed second sergeant. In April, 
1862, he was transferred to the 
First Regiment United States 



Sharpshooters, and served there in 
McClellan's campaign from York- 
town to Harrison's Landing. July 
10, 1862, he was commissioned by 
the governor of New Hampshire 
first lieutenant and regimental 
quartermaster. In that capacity he 
served with the regiment until Jan. 
1, 1863, when he was ordered on 
staff duty as acting assistant ad- 
jutant-general, Third Brigade, Third 
Division, Third Army Corps. Here 
he served till August, 1863, taking 
part at Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, 
and Wapping Heights, where he 
maintained a well-earned reputation 
for gallant conduct and faithful dis- 
charge of duty. In August, 1864, 
he was ordered to Riker's Island, 
New York Harbor, on detached ser- 
vice, but at his own request was 
soon returned to his regiment and 
served with it until mustered out 
September 22, 1864. 

1861. Sidney Augustus Merriam: 
Was mustered into the Fortieth 
Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers 
Sept. 8, 1862, and was made hos- 
pital steward Sept. 12. On the 18th 
of February, 1863, he was promoted 
to first lieutenant and was mustered 
out June 15, 1803, at the expiration 
of his term of service. His regi- 
ment served in Virginia, South Caro- 
lina, and Florida. Died Aug. 14, 
1876. 

1861. George Sylvester Morris: 
Enlisted as a corporal in the Six- 
teenth Vermont Volunteers ( a nine 
months' regiment) in October, 1862, 
and served in the Department of 
Washington and at Gettysburg, 
being on detached service the larger 
portion of the time, as regimental 
and brigade postmaster. He was 
mustered out in August, 1863, at 
the expiration of his term of service. 
Died March 24, 1889. 

1861. Harlan Winslow Page: 
Served as paymaster's clerk with 
Maj. E. D. Redington, paymaster 
U. S. Army at Washington, D. C, 
and Springfield, 111., from April, 
1865, till Nov. 30, 1865. 



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1861. Henry Pitt Page: Enlisted 
Aug. 22, 1S(J2, as a private in the 
Fourteenth New Hampshire Volun- 
teers, Company K. Afterwards he 
was promoted to first sergeant of 
the same company, and then to lieu- 
tenant in Company I, May 27, 180-1. 
He was on detached duty most of 
the time till the close of the war, 
being discharged for disability May 
15, 1805. 

1861. William Robie Patten: En- 
listed Aug. 1, 1802, in Company I, 
Eleventh Regiment New Hampshire 
Volunteers, and September 4 was 
appointed captain of the company. 
He served with the regiment, which 
was attached to the Ninth Army 
Corps under General Burnside, in 
East Tennessee and Virginia, till 
honorably discharged on resignation 
April 20, 1804. Died at Concord, 
N. H., May 5, 1886. 

1861. Francis William Perkins: 
Mr. Perkins enjoyed the distin- 
guished honor of being the first one 
of his class, and, so far as known, 
the first undergraduate to enlist in 
the Union Army, leaving in May, 
18G1, just before graduation. He 
enlisted in Company B, Second Regi- 
ment New Hampshire Volunteers, 
May 11, 1801, and was promoted to 
sergeant within a month. In June 
he was promoted quartermaster 
sergeant of the regiment ; was with 
his regiment at the first Bull Run 
battle; Aug. 21, 1861, he was com- 
missioned first lieutenant and quar- 
termaster of his regiment, and in 
September was assigned to duty as 
assistant quartermaster on the staff 
of Col. Robert Cowdin, commanding 
First Brigade in Hooker's division, 
stationed in lower Maryland ; served 
in the same position under Gen. 
Henry M. Naglee, and was with the 
brigade through the Peninsular cam- 
paign; June 9, 1862, was commis- 
sioned captain and assistant quar- 
termaster of volunteers, and was 
assigned to duty on the staff of 
Brig.-Gen. Cuvier Grover. After the 
second Bull Run battle he served as 



quartermaster of the Second Divi- 
sion, Third Army Corps, on the staff 
of Brig.-Gen. Daniel E. Sickles. In 
September, 1802, he returned to the 
staff of General Grover at Edward's 
Ferry, Md. In December he joined 
the Banks expedition and went to 
New Orleans, serving at various 
periods as chief quartermaster of 
the Second, Third, and Fourth Di- 
visions of the Nineteenth Army 
Corps, and, for a time, of the corps 
itself, always on the staff of Gen- 
eral Grover. He was in both expedi- 
tions up the Red River and at the 
siege of Port Hudson. 

In July and August, 1864, he 
served as chief quartermaster on the 
staff of Ma j. -Gen. Gordon Granger, 
and was in the expedition which 
captured Forts Gaines and Morgan, 
and entered the Bay of Mobile. In 
September of the same year was 
placed in charge of water transpor- 
tation of the Department of the 
Gulf, with headquarters at New 
Orleans, remaining there until June, 
1805; was then ordei-ed to Mobile 
as chief of the Department of Ala- 
bama; was honorably discharged 
on resignation Sept. 20, 1865; re- 
ceived honorable mention for gallant 
and meritorious service in the bat- 
tles of The Orchards, Glendale, Mal- 
vern Hill, and in battles before Port 
Hudson. Died March 6, 1871, at 
New Orleans, La. 
1861. Edward Dana Redington: 
Enlisted at St. Johnsbury, Vt., Aug. 
2.3, 1862, in Company K, Fifteenth 
Vermont Volunteers. September 22 
he was appointed sergeant major 
of the Twelfth Vermont Volunteers, 
and was mustered into the service 
October 4 at Brattleboro, Vt. He 
served in the Department of Wash- 
ington under Gen. Silas Casey. 
June 23, 1863, he was promoted 
second lieutenant of Company I. 
Late in June the regiment was 
ordered to join the Army of the 
Potomac, and overtook it at Em- 
metsburg, j\Id., the day before the 
battle of Gettysburg. On the first 



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day of the battle the regiment was 
sent as guard to the wagon train 
of the army, and escorted it to 
Westminster, Md. The term of the 
regiment having exjiired it was or- 
dered to Vermont, and was mustered 
out July 14, 1863. Feb. 23, 1864, 
Mr. Redington was appointed by 
President Lincoln additional pay- 
master U. S. Army, with rank of 
major, and was ordered to duty in 
the Army of the Potomac, with 
headquarters at Washington. His 
payments were mainly in the Ninth 
Army Corps, under General Burn- 
side, while the army was in front 
of Petersburg. In June, 1865, how- 
ever, he was ordered to Indianapolis, 
and thence to Springfield, 111., where 
he was engaged in paying off mus- 
tered-out troops. Dec. 1, 1865, he 
was mustered out on account of the 
close of the war. 
1861. Charles Tyng Ilicliardson : 
Enlisted as a private in a company 
forming for the Cadet Regiment 
(otherwise the Forty-fifth Massa- 
chusetts) in August, 1862. He was 
mustered into service at Readville, 
Mass., September 26. The regiment 
left for the seat of war in North 
Carolina, by steamer from Boston, 
November 5. It was first quartered 
in barracks on the Trent River, near 
Newbern. He was afterwards on 
provost duty there and again in 
camp and bivouac. He was then 
promoted commissary sergeant and 
held the position till mustered out 
at the expiration of his term, July 
21, 1863. The regiment was en- 
gaged at Kinston, Whitehall, and 
Goldsboro, N. C, and in several 
skirmishes besides. Reaching home 
while the draft was in progress 
Richardson volunteered for duty to 
quell the riots incident thereto. 
Died Nov. 17, 1893. 
1861. Edward Thomas Rowell: 
Enlisted in the Fifth New Hamp- 
shire Volunteers in August, 18G1. 
On the 21st of September he was 
commissioned second lieutenant 
Company F, Second Regiment Ber- 



dan's United States Sharpshooters, 
of which company Henry M. Cald- 
well, of his class, was captain. On 
the death of Captain Caldwell, July 
12, 1862, Lieutenant Rowell waa 
commissioned captain, and on July 
1, 1863, he was promoted to major. 
Feb. 17, 1864, he received a commis- 
sion as lieutenant-colonel, but there 
was not a sufficient number of men 
in the regiment to admit of his 
being mustered in in that rank. 
He was in the battles and skir- 
mishes at Falmouth, Rappahannock 
Station, Sulphur Springs, Gaines- 
ville, second Bull Run, South Moun- 
tain, Fredericksburg, The Cedars, 
Chancellorsville, Kelly's Ford, Lo- 
cust Grove, Mine Run, Wilderness, 
Po River, Spottsylvania, North 
Anna, Tolopotomy, Cold Harbor, and 
Petersburg. During the caiupaign 
of 1864 the First and Second regi- 
ments of Berdan's Sharpshooters 
were consolidated and reported as 
a separate organization direct to 
division headquarters. While thus 
organized the two regiments were 
commanded by Major Rowell. He 
was wounded at the battle of Get- 
tysburg, and at Petersburg while 
gallantly leading his regiment he 
received a severe wound, from the 
effects of which he did not fully 
recover. Major Rowell served in the 
army until the close of the war. 
Died Aug. 4, 1899. 

1861. Joseph Oliver Stearns: 
Though not enlisted in the army, 
he served in the Sanitary Commis- 
sion in 1862, and contracted disease 
from which he died Sept. 6, 1862, 
thus really giving his life for his 
country's cause. 

1861. James Monroe Whitaker: 
Was assistant surgeon of the Seven- 
tieth United States Colored Infan- 
try from 1863 to 1865. The Seven- 
tieth was organized at Natchez, 
Miss. Died June 30, 1896. 

1861. Marshall Lebanon Brown, 
C.S.D. : Enlisted as a private, Nov. 
12, 1861, in Company E. Sixth Regi- 
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re-enlisted with his regiment Dec. 
29, 1803. He was detailed to hos- 
pital service and was promoted to 
the position of hospital steward 
Jan. 2, 1863. June 1, 1SG5, he was 
promoted to assistant surgeon, with 
rank of lieutenant, and was hon- 
orably discharged and mustered out 
of the United States service at the 
close of the war, July 17, 1SG5. 

1861. Henry Bartlett Green, 
C.S.D. : Was appointed acting third 
assistant engineer U. S. Navy Sept. 
20, 18G2, and was promoted to act- 
ing second assistant engineer March 
3, 1864; resigned on account of 
sickness March 22, 1865. He served 
in 1862 on the screw steamer " Col- 
orado," in 1863 on the same steamer, 
at that time in the navy yard at 
Portsmouth ; in 186-4 on the screw 
steamer '" Tahomah," which was re- 
pairing at New York City. 

1861. Horace Greenleaf McDuffee, 
C.S.D. : Enlisted at Troy, N. Y., in 

1862, as a private in the One Hun- 
dred and Sixty-ninth New York 
Volunteers. He was taken sick in 

1863, near Carsville, Va., and was 
sent to the United States General 
Hospital near Fort Monroe. He was 
discharged in 1864 by reason of 
phj'sical disability. 

1861. Thomas Elliott Buck, 
D.^NI.C. : Was commissioned assist- 
ant surgeon First Connecticut Cav- 
alry Regiment Oct. 10, 1862; mus- 
tered out Aug. 18, 1865. This regi- 
ment served its entire term of ser- 
vice with the Anny of the Potomac, 
and in the campaigns in the Shen- 
andoah Valley. It is credited with 
eighty-eight engagements by name. 
It served as a battalion until March 
8, 1864, when the regimental organi- 
zation was completed. Its later ser- 
vice was with Custer's Cavalry Di- 
vision. It was in the front at Ap- 
pomattox; received the first flag of 
truce, and was detailed to escort 
General Grant when he went to re- 
ceive General Lee's surrender. 

1861. Adoniram Judson Gray, 
D.M.C.: Was appointed acting as- 



sistant surgeon U. S. Army Feb. 1, 
1863; assistant surgeon Fifth Regi- 
ment United States Colored Troops, 
with rank as first lieutenant. May 
12, 1865; honorably mustered out 
Oct. 10, 1865. Assistant surgeon 
Twelfth Regiment United States 
Colored Troops, Heavy Artillery, 
Oct. 11, 1865; acting assistant sur- 
geon U. S. Army, Dec. 20, 1865; sur- 
geon-in-chief Bureau R. F. and A. L., 
District of Alabama, Jan. 1, 1868, 
to Dec. 31, 1868, when the district 
was discontinued. From Feb. 1, 
1863, to March 1, 1864, was attend- 
ing surgeon and assistant executive 
ofiicer, Lovell General Hospital, 
Portsmouth Grove, R. I. March to 
July of 1864 attending surgeon and 
one of the pathologists. General 
Field Hospital, Chattanooga, Tenn. 
July I to Nov. 15, 1864, executive 
officer and secretary, Officers' Hos- 
pital, Lookout Mountain, Tenn. 
Dec. 1, 1864, to May 23, 1865, at- 
tending surgeon and member of ex- 
amining board for Invalid Pensions, 
Carver Greneral Hospital, Washing- 
ton, D. C, also served with regiment 
at Newbern, N. C, and from Decem- 
ber, 1865, to Jan. 1, 1868, surgeon- 
in-charge of General Hospital at 
Mobile, Alabama. After the close 
of the Civil War served as an acting 
assistant surgeon U. S. Army in 
various parts of the frontier, Texas, 
New Mexico, and W^yoming, until 
June 1, 1881, when he resigned. 

1861. Franklin Lambert Hunt, 
D.M.C. : Was commissioned assist- 
ant surgeon Twenty-seventh Regi- 
ment Massachusetts Volunteers Aug. 
8, 1862; went with the regiment to 
North Carolina, and was appointed 
acting post surgeon, and afterwards 
post surgeon at Washington, N. C. 
While riding just outside the town 
with other officers Nov. 18, 1862, 
was killed by guerillas. 

1861, Non-Grad. Andrew Neaf 
Damrell: Left college in the fall 
of 1858, and afterwards entered 
West Point, from which he gradu- 
ated with high honors, and was 



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appointed first lieutenant of en- 
gineers June 13, 1864. March 7, 
1867, he was commissioned captain 
of engineers, and afterwards a major 
by brevet in the regular army. He 
is still in the service. 
1861. Non-Grad. Jolin Holt 
Hutchinson: Enlisted in Com- 
pany G, Third Regiment Vermont 
Volunteers, in the spring of 18G1; 
was appointed first lieutenant May 
27, 1861; was attached to the Sig- 
nal Corps, and served there till dis- 
charged for disability May 20, 1863. 

1861. Non-Grad. John Steele: 
Was commissioned second lieutenant 
Company B, First New Hampshire 
Volunteer Cavalry, March 24, 1864; 
promoted first lieutenant Feb. 23, 
1865, and served with his regiment 
under Sheridan in the Shenandoah 
Valley till mustered out, July 15, 
1865. Was appointed in 1866 second 
lieutenant in United States Cavalry, 
and was stationed at Fort Laramie, 
and other posts on the plains, till 
1867, when he resigned on account 
of ill health. Died May 17, 1869, 
at Goffstown, N. H. 

1862. Augustus Alvord: Enlisted 
in November, 1863, in the First Con- 
necticut Hea\y Artillery as a pri- 
vate, and in December was assigned 
to a company which was doing gar- 
rison duty at one of the forts on 
Alexandria Heights, near Washing- 
ton. In May, 1864, the regiment 
was ordered to the front, joining 
the Army of the James near Ber- 
muda Hundred, with headquarters 
near Broadway Landing on the Ap- 
pomattox River. During the sum- 
mer of 1864 Mr. Alvord was on de- 
tached duty at Colonel Abbott's 
quarters. In the autumn of that 
year Col. Henry C. Ward, Thirty- 
first Regiment LTnited States Colored 
Troops, learning that Mr. Alvord 
was a member of a theological sem- 
inary, appointed him chaplain of 
the regiment, provided he could get 
a furlough to go home to be or- 
dained, which he did, and returned 
in January, 1865, The Thirty-first 



United States Colored Troops was 
stationed north of the James River, 
six or seven miles south of Rich- 
mond. In March the regiment broke 
camp and joined the main army in 
front of Petersburg, participating 
in the final struggles for the pos- 
session of that city and Richmond, 
and they were also in pursuit of 
Lee's army till its surrender. In the 
following June the regiment was 
ordered to Texas, landing at Brazos 
de Santiago, near the moutn of the 
Rio Grande; in July was ordered 
to Rowa, 300 miles distant, where it 
remained during the summer. Chap- 
lain Alvord resigned in October fol- 
lowing. 

1862. Joshua Stuart Banfield: 
In March, 1864, was commissioned 
teacher of freedmen by the New 
England Freedmen's Aid Society, 
and was assigned to the Thirty- 
sixth Regiment United States Col- 
ored Troops, doing garrison duty at 
Point Lookout, Md. Afterwards 
went with the regiment to the front, 
at Petersburg, Va. Was next as- 
signed, under the auspices of the 
Freedmen's Bureau, to colored 
schools in Alexandria, Va., and 
thence to Norfolk. Afterwards, in 
1865, was ordered to Columbus, Ga., 
to establish and superintend col- 
ored schools there. He resigned 
such service in February, 1867. 

1862. Calvin Smith Brown: While 
a junior in college, enlisted in the 
Seventh Squadron, Rhode Island 
Cavalry, June 13, 1862, and was in 
the Harper's Ferry campaign, hold- 
ing the position of battalion com- 
missary sergeant; mustered out 
Oct. 2, 1862. In March, 1865, was 
appointed captain of the Twenty- 
first, unassigned company, Maine 
Volunteers; was promoted lieuten- 
ant-colonel, in command of the First 
Battalion, Maine Infantry, in May, 
1865 ; was in command of five 
districts of South Carolina in 
the latter part of the same year; 
mustered out of service in April, 
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1862. Howard Malcolm Chase: En- 
listed Sept. 12, 1802, in Company H, 
Sixteenth Regiment New Hampshire 
Volunteers; mustered in as ser- 
geant Oct. 25, 1862; died of dis- 
ease at Memphis, Tenn., Aug. 17, 
18G3. 

The regiment was a nine months' 
organization, and served in the De- 
partment of the Gulf under Gen. 
N. P. Banks. It participated in the 
siege and capture of Port Hudson 
June 3 to July 9, 1863. 

1862. Amos Waters Crane: Served 
as first lieutenant in One Hundred 
and Fifty-third Regiment Ohio Vol- 
unteers ( a regiment enlisted for one 
hundred days ) . Mustered in May 
10, 1864. Discharged Sept. 9, 1864. 
The regiment was on duty guarding 
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad in 
West Virginia for a month, and in 
June was ordered to report to Gen- 
eral Butler at Bermuda Hundred, 
Va. It performed useful service on 
picket and other duty, and was en- 
gaged with loss at North River Mills 
July 3, 1804. 

1862. John Robie Eastman, C.S.D.: 
In November, 1862, entered the U. S. 
Naval Observatory at Washington, 
D. C, as an assistant. Volunteered 
for service in the field when Gen. 
Jubal A. Early assaulted the De- 
fences of Washington, and was or- 
dered by Rear Admiral L. M. Golds- 
borough, U. S. Navy, to duty at 
Fort Lincoln, as acting captain in 
charge of a portion of the men sent 
to the trenches from the Washing- 
ton navy yard. Appointed Pro- 
fessor of Mathematics U. S. Na\'y 
Ecb. 17, 1865. Transferred to the 
Retired List July 29, 1898, with 
the rank of captain U. S. Navy. 

1862. George Farr: Dining Com- 
mencement week, just before gradu- 
ation, he applied for, and received 
from Governor Berry, authority to 
raise a company for the Thirteenth 
Regiment New Hampshire Infantry, 
and was mustered in as captain of 
Company D Sept. 19, 1862. The 
regiment remained in the vicinity 



of Alexandria, Va., until about Dec. 
1, 1862, when it was ordered to join 
the Army of the Potomac at Fal- 
mouth, Va., and was assigned to the 
Third Division, Ninth Army Corps. 
On the evening of December 9 it 
crossed the pontoon bridge into the 
city of Fredericksburg, and on the 
11th received its baptism of fire 
in the bloody battle of Fredericks- 
burg. Captain Farr was ordered to 
Newport News in February, 1863, 
and there remained till March, when 
the regiment was ordered to Suffolk 
to defend the place against Long- 
street. He was on duty here till 
the last of June, when the division 
was sent on a raid to Hanover 
Junction to destroy the railroad and 
break Lee's communication with the 
Confederate capital, which was ac- 
complished. On his return to Ports- 
mouth Captain Farr with many 
others was prostrated by sunstroke. 
He was in hospital three weeks, and 
after joining his regiment was or- 
dered to garrison Fort Tillinghast, 
where he remained till the com- 
mencement of the campaign of 1864, 
in April of that year. All the 
troops around Portsmouth were or- 
dered to join General Butler's com- 
mand in the vicinity of Bermuda 
Hundred, and were kept marching 
and fighting most of the time for 
the next month. The last of May 
the Thirteenth New Hampshire, 
with the division to which it be- 
longed, was sent under Gen. W. F. 
Smith to join the Army of the 
Potomac under General Grant. 
Reaching the left of the army on 
June 1, after a long and tedious 
march, the division was ordered at 
once to charge the enemy's works. 
In this charge Captain Farr was 
very badly wounded by a musket 
ball which lodged in the back near 
the spine, entering near the shoul- 
der, but after being in hospital, both 
at White House Landing and in 
Carver Hospital, in Washington, 
D. C, for several months, he was 
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New Hampshire. He was treated 
while in New Hampshire by Dr. 
A. B. Crosby, Dartmouth '53, and in 
November liad recovered sufficiently 
to rejoin his regiment at Fort Har- 
rison, Va. Not being able to do 
duty at the front, and getting weary 
of hospital life, he made applica- 
tion to General Ord, commanding 
the Army of the James, to be as- 
signed to light duty, and was or- 
dered by him to report at Norfolk, 
Va., for service on a military com- 
mission, where he remained till the 
war closed. Mustered out June 21, 
1865. He was a great sufferer from 
his wounds till 18G6. Died March 
20, 1895. 

1862. Stark Fellows: Enlisted in 
the Fourteenth Regiment New 
Hampshire Volunteers Aug. 22, 
1862, and was commissioned first 
lieutenant October 9. Served in 
the defences of Washington until 
Sept. 4, 1863, when he resigned and 
went before the United States Mili- 
tary Board for examination for a 
position in a colored regiment. 
Passed for a field officer's position, 
receiving the highest marking, and 
was appointed lieutenant-colonel of 
the Second United States Colored 
Infantry. He was placed in com- 
mand of Fort Taylor, Key West, 
Fla., where he was stricken with 
yellow fever and died May 23, 1864. 
He was a man of rare promise. 

1862. George Fuller Gill: Was a 
private and hospital steward Sev- 
enth Squadron, Rhode Island Cav- 
alry, 1862; medical cadet U. S. 
Army 1863 and 1864, and acting 
assistant surgeon U. S. Army until 
July, 1865. Served in Sigel's corps, 
Army of the Potomac, and in the 
Departments of Mississippi and 
Ohio. While in the Department of 
Ohio, in hospital service, was on 
special detail as surgeon of trans- 
portation department. Died June 
4, 1892, at Magnolia, Mass. 

1862. George Frank Hobbs: En- 
listed Sept. 23, 1864, in the First 
New Hampshire Heavy Artillery; 



was soon after discharged by special 
order, that he might accept the 
position of first lieutenant and 
adjutant of the Eighteenth New 
Hampshire, Oct. 23, 1864; served 
until the spring of 1865, when he 
was obliged to resign on account of 
ill health, and was discharged to 
date March 8, 1865. Died Oct. 7, 
1891, at Somerville, Mass. 

1862. Simeon Hunt: Was ap- 
pointed in the fall of 1864 assistant 
surgeon U. S. Army Colored Troops, 
but was not mustered into service, 
being incapacitated from duty by in- 
flammatory rheumatism. 

1862. Andrew Ingrahani: Soon 
after gi-aduation entered the U. S. 
Navy and served two years ; then 
entered the service of the Engineer 
Corps of the Army of the Gulf and 
was topographical engineer on the 
stafT of Gen. E. R. S. Canby at the 
close of the war. 

1862. Benjamin McLeran: Soon 
after graduation enlisted in Com- 
pany I, Third Regiment Massachu- 
setts Volunteers. Was on detached 
service in the Signal Corps most of 
the time while in service. Was dis- 
charged in 1863. 

1862. Edwin Franklin Palmer: 
Enlisted Aug. 25, 1862, in Com- 
pany B, Thirteenth Vermont Volun- 
teers; promoted to second lieuten- 
ant Nov. 4, 1862 ; mustered out 
July 21, 1863. The regiment was 
connected with the Second Vermont 
Brigade, which did service in the 
defences of Washington and along 
the line of the Orange and Alex- 
andria Railroad from October, 1862, 
until July, 1864, when it joined the 
Army of the Potomac, just previous 
to the battle of Gettysburg, and did 
conspicuous service in that battle. 
The brigade was under the command 
of Gen. George J. Stannard, and 
held a pivotal position in the third 
days' battle, making a flank attack 
on Wilcox's troops, and accom- 
plishing much towards the suc- 
cess of our army on that memorable 
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1862. George Harvey Taylor: 
Was appointed second lieutenant 
Seventy-third United States Colored 
Infantry (Company C), and mus- 
tered in Dec. 21, 1803, and was mus- 
tered out Oct. 24, 1SG4, on account 
of physical disability. In Novem- 
ber, 1864, was appointed first lieu- 
tenant, and was mustered out June, 
1SG.5. Died June 19, 1881. 

1862. Augustus Chapman Walker: 
Was medical cadet at the Soldiers' 
Home Hospital, New York City, 
from May to August, 1862. Was 
then detailed for six weeks to ex- 
amine recruits for the Metropolitan 
Brigade, New York City, where he 
was commissioned first assistant 
surgeon Tenth Regiment New York 
Volunteers, and soon after was re- 
commissioned first assistant sur- 
geon One Hundred and Thirty-third 
New York Volunteers, and was mus- 
tered into United States service 
Sept. 3, 1862, and served near Wash- 
ington, D. C, till December, 1862, 
when the regiment was ordered to 
Baton Rouge, La. Remained in 
camp there till March, 1863, when 
they took the field, in the Port Hud- 
son campaign, participating in the 
assaults of May 27 and June 14 
and in duties incident to the siege 
till the surrender, July 9. The regi- 
ment was in the expedition to the 
north of Sabine River, Tex., under 
command of General Emory, Sep- 
tember, 1863. Was subsequently in 
the Teche County from October to 
last of December, when the army 
went into winter quarters at Bonnet 
Cane, La., and remained there until 
ordered on the Red River campaign 
in April, 1864. After returning 
from that expedition the regiment 
was ordered to Virginia, and took 
part in the various battles in the 
Shenandoah Valley against the rebel 
General Early until Sept. 19, 1864. 
He was promoted to rank of full 
surgeon, Eighteenth New York Cav- 
alry, to date from September, 1864, 
and was ordered to New Orleans, 
La. Was mustered Oct. 31, 1864, 



and served in camp and garrison 
duty till April, 1865,' when he was 
detailed as surgeon-in-chief of the 
Cavalry Division commanded by 
Brigadier-General Knife at Green- 
ville, La., and served on his staff 
until mustered out of the service at 
the close of the war, June 13, 1865. 
The service of Surgeon Walker was 
always in the field except for the 
brief period last mentioned, and 
while he was assistant surgeon of 
the One Hundred and Fifty-third 
New Y'ork he was, for about a year, 
in charge of the regiment, the sur- 
geon being on detached duty. 

1862. John Sidney Warren: Was 
appointed in the summer of 1864 
assistant surgeon One Hundred and 
Twentieth United States Colored In- 
fantry, but his commission, through 
some miscarriage, failed to reach 
him, and he soon after received a 
contract as acting assistant surgeon 
U. S. Army, and was ordered to a 
recruiting station of the One Hun- 
dred and Nineteenth United States 
Colored Infantry, then on the west 
bank of the Tennessee River, about 
eighteen miles from Fort Donelson. 
Remained there only a short time, 
being pursued and barely escaping 
capture by the Confederate General 
Forrest. Proceeded to Paducah,Ky., 
and there was assigned to the 
Eighth United States Heavy Artil- 
lery (colored) as assistant surgeon. 
This regiment was then occupying 
Fort Anderson at the mouth of the 
Tennessee River. Remained at this 
point imtil the early spring of 1865, 
when he was ordered with his regi- 
ment to City Point, Va., and was 
soon thereafter detailed for duty in 
the post hospital at that point and 
continued on that duty until mus- 
tered out tlie following summer. 

1862. Augustus Wiswall Wiggin: 
Became a medical cadet U. S. Army 
June 17, 1864, assistant surgeon, 
]\Iarch 15, 1865, and was attached 
to the Fifth United States Heavy 
Artillery June 6, 1865. Was made 
brevet major of United States Vol- 



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unteers Aug. 6, 1866, to date from 
March 15, 1865. Resigned at that 
date, but was afterwards reap- 
pointed assistant surgeon, regular 
army, Nov. 16, 1868. Was on duty 
at West Point Hill, December, 1868, 
and from the latter date till May, 
1870, at Camp Warner, Oregon. 
Was ordered to Fort Hall, Idaho, 
met with an accident on the way, 
and was carried to Camp Douglass, 
Utah, and was under treatment till 
August, 1870, when he went on duty 
at Fort Stevens, Oregon. Served 
afterwards at Forts Colville and 
Vancouver, W. T., till February, 
1874; at Portland, Ore., and in the 
field till July, 1874, and at Fort 
Stevens till March 7, 1875, when 
he died from the effects of the acci- 
dent received in 1870. He was a 
very promising officer, and was under 
orders at the time of his death to 
proceed east for examination for the 
rank of full surgeon. 

1862. "William Henry Baldwin, 
C.S.D.: After graduation entered the 
army as lieutenant in the First New 
York Volunteer Engineers; served 
at Hilton Head and at the siege and 
capture of Morris Island, and in 
the Army of the James, in front of 
Richmond and Petersburg, till the 
close of the war, when he was mus- 
tered out as captain. 

1862. Charles Lee Douglass, 
C.S.D.: Enlisted May 8, 1861, as a 
private in Company A, First Regi- 
ment New Hampshire Volunteers; 
mustered out Aug. 9, 1801. 

During its three months' service 
the regiment was on duty along the 
Potomac to Harper's Ferry. 

1862. Charles Melroy Fellows, 
C.S.D. : Served as hospital steward 
in the Douglas Hospital, Washing- 
ton, D. C, during the latter part 
of the war. Died Dec. 23, 1896. 

1862. Non-Grad. William Henry 
Fessenden, C.S.D. : Enlisted as a 
private in Company L, First Mas- 
sachusetts Cavalry, November, 1861 ; 
was severely wounded at the battle 
of Pocotaligo, S. C, Oct. 22, 1862, 



and was in the hospital at Beau- 
fort, S. C, till April 23, 1865, under 
treatment, when he was discharged 
on account of disability. 

1862. Leander Miller Haskins, 
C.S.D. : Was connected with the 
army as commissary's clerk in the 
field, being attached to the Nine- 
teenth Army Corps, and served at 
Port Hudson and Donelsonville 
during the summer of 1863, when 
he was discharged by reason of 
sickness ; afterwards connected with 
the navy department in Washing- 
ton till the close of the war. 

1862. Heilge Charles Curtis, 
C.S.D. : Was appointed acting third 
assistant engineer U. S. Navy Dec. 
14, 1863, and served on the Steamer 
" Harvest Moon," in the South At- 
lantic Squadron. Resigned Sept 14, 
1864. Died in Boston in 1871. 

1862. Samuel Welles, C.S.D. : Ap- 
pointed civil engineer U. S. Navy 
Oct. 1, 1864. Killed by explosion of 
a steam boiler in Mare Island navy 
yard, California, July 10, 1866. 

1862. Myron Leslie Baxter, 
D.M.C.: Was appointed assistant 
to Prof. E. E. Phelps, who held an 
appointment from the governor of 
Vermont, in connection with the 
First Vermont Brigade, which was 
serving at Camp Griffin, Va., in the 
winter of 1861 and spring of 1862; 
was appointed acting assistant sur- 
geon of U. S. Army in May, 1863, 
and served in Campbell General 
Hospital, Washington, D. C, to 
October, 1864, and in Swift General 
Hospital, Prairie du Chien, Wis., 
from February to June, 1865. Died 
Jan. 8, 1895. 

1862. Francis Newton Gibson, 
D.M.C. : Was commissioned Aug. 6, 
1862, assistant surgeon Ninth Regi- 
ment New Hampshire Volunteers; 
promoted to surgeon Jan. 18, 1865; 
was on duty with the regiment in 
the field from the time of its organ- 
ization until mustered out of ser- 
vice at the close of the war. The 
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of the time, and did duty both in 
the Army of the Potomac and in tlie 
western army; was witli the Army 
of the Potomac at the time of 
the evacuation of Petersburg and 
Richmond. 

1862. John Alfred Hayes, D.M.C. : 
Was commissioned assistant sur- 
geon Eleventh Regiment New Hamp- 
shire Volunteers Aug. 2G, 18G2, and 
was mustered out with the regiment 
June 4, 1865, as surgeon, having 
been promoted to that rank on the 
resignation of Surgeon Ross (Dart. 
Coll. 1843). Dr. Hayes was on de- 
tached service for a considerable 
time in various hospitals connected 
with the Ninth Army Corps, and 
participated in all of the battles 
and skirmishes in which his regi- 
ment was engaged, and won a high 
reputation as a physician and sur- 
geon. He was brevetted lieuten- 
ant-colonel United States Volun- 
teers March 13, 18G5, for faithful 
and meritorious services. 

1862. Thomas Hiland, D.M.C: 
Was commissioned assistant sur- 
geon U. S. Navy Sept. 2, 1861; 
passed assistant surgeon June 28, 
18G5; surgeon June 7, 1SG9. Served 
on U. S. S. " Somoma " and West- 
ern and Gulf squadrons ; placed 
on retired list March 13, 1883. 

1862. Jacob Washington Mooar, 
D.M.C. : Enlisted in Company I, 
Fifth Regiment New Hampshire 
Volunteers, Sept. 25, 1861, and was 
immediately detailed for hospital 
dutj% serving at the Center Street 
Hospital, Newark, N. J., and Camp 
Distribution on Arlington Heights, 
Va., McVeigh Hospital in Alexan- 
dria, Va., where he had charge of 
the Dispensary for several months, 
and in December, 1863, was trans- 
ferred to the headquarters. First 
Division General Hospital, in Alex- 
andria, Va.; March 10, 1864, was 
discharged on special order of the 
secretary of war, and on the same 
day was appointed as acting assist- 
ant surgeon U. S. Armj', and as- 
signed to duty at Clareuiont Hos- 



pital, Alexandria, Va. September, 
1SG5, transferred to duty with tlie 
Third Regiment United States In- 
fantry at Fort Whipple, serving 
with that regiment and with the 
Fourth United States Heavy Artil- 
lery at the same place. After this, 
was on duty at Harewood Hospital, 
Washington, D. C. Oct. 14, 18GG, 
his contract was annulled by the 
medical director of the Depart- 
ment of Washington, his services 
no longer being required. Reap- 
pointed Feb. 27, 18G7, and served at 
different posts until discharged 
Oct. 30, 1868. 

1862. Reuben Webster Price, 
D.M.C: Enlisted Oct. 13, 1864, in 
First New Hampshire Volunteer 
Light Battery, but before leaving 
tlie State was appointed first as- 
sistant surgeon First New Hamp- 
shire Heavy Artillery, to date Oct. 
12, 1864. On arriving at Washing- 
ton he was placed in charge of Gen- 
eral Hardin's brigade, Twenty-sec- 
ond Army Corps, and was after- 
wards post surgeon at Fort Reno, 
and again at Fort Simmons, Md. 
Mustered out with the regiment 
June 15, 18G5. He soon after re- 
ceived an appointment from Presi- 
dent Lincoln as assistant surgeon 
One Hundred and Ninth United 
States Colored Troops, and served 
in that regiment. Commissioned 
assistant surgeon Eighth United 
States Colored Heavy Artillery Oct. 
10, 1865, and served at Indianola 
and Victoria, Tex. The regiment 
was mustered out Feb. 10, 1866. 

1862, Noah Sanborn, D.M.C: En- 
listed in the Fourth Regiment Ver- 
mont Volunteers as a private Sept. 
22, 1861, with an understanding 
that he was to be appointed to as- 
sist the regular medical staff in 
their duties; during the first year 
did duty as ward master, hospital 
steward, assistant surgeon and sur- 
geon, the regimental surgeon being 
sick and off duty a great deal of the 
time; at the end of the first year 
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and served in the field and in the 
hospitals in and about Washington 
for two years, when he was mus- 
tered out of service; was in the 
battles of Lee's Mills, Yorktown, 
White House Landing, Gaines Mill, 
Fair Oaks, Seven Pines, Seven Days' 
Fight, Autietam, Fredricksburg, 
and many others in which the Army 
of the Potomac participated. Died 
Sept 6, 1894. 

1862. Non-Grad. Ira McLaugh- 
lin Barton: At the beginning of 
the war enlisted a company and was 
mustered in as captain of Company 
E, First New Hampshire Volun- 
teers, May 2, 1861 ( a three months' 
organization), receiving the first 
captain's commission issued in the 
State. When his first term of en- 
listment expired, Aug. 9, ISGl, he 
raised another company, and was 
appointed, Oct. 12, 18G1, captain of 
Company F, in the Fifth New 
Hampshire, and was in many of 
the bloodiest battles of the war. 
His health being shattered by ex- 
posure in the Peninsular campaign, 
he was compelled to resign Sept. 12, 
1862. Recovering, he raised Com- 
pany B, First Regiment New Hamp- 
shii'e Heavy Artillery, and com- 
manded it at Fort Foot«, near 
Washington. In 1864 he was sent 
home with authority to raise a 
regiment of artillery. He did so, 
received a commission as lieuten- 
ant-colonel Sept. 29, 1864, and com- 
manded at Fort Sumner. He was 
mustered out June 15, 1865. Was 
appointed second lieutenant Nine- 
teenth Infantry, U. S. Army, May 
11, 1866; transferred to Twenty- 
eighth Infantry Sept. 21, 1866; ap- 
pointed first lieutenant Aug. 20, 
1867; unassigned March 31, 1869; 
discharged Oct. 25, 1870. Died at 
Newport, N. H., Jan. 19, 1876. 

1862. Non-Grad. Charles Warren 
Chase: Enlisted in the Twelfth 
Regiment New Hampshire Volun- 
teers Aug. 13, 1862, and was com- 
missioned captain of Company G 
Sept. 8, 1862; continued in the ser- 



vice till April 8, 1863, when he re- 
signed. The only battle in which 
the regiment was engaged during 
Cajitain Chase's connection with it 
was the battle of Fredericksburg, 
Dec. 13, 1862. 
1862. Non-Grad. Clarence Dyer 
Gates: Enlisted in May, 1861, in 
an Illinois regiment, but the or- 
ganization was disbanded in August 
following, when he returned to Ver- 
mont and enlisted Sept. 1, 1862, in 
the First Vermont Cavalry, and 
was made adjutant of same Oct. 4, 

1862. Was aide-de-camp on the 
staiT of General Farnsworth, when 
the general was killed at the battle 
of Gettysburg; was appointed aide- 
de-camp on the staff of Gen. George 
A. Custer to date from Sept. 14, 

1863, but was captured at the battle 
of Culpeper September 13, and 
w^as a prisoner until May, 1864. 
He was in thirty-six battles and 
skirmishes, and was mustered out 
Nov. 18, 1864; was offered the 
command of a veteran cavalry regi- 
ment being organized at Washing- 
ton, but this was disbanded by 
reason of the close of the war. 

1862. Non-Grad. Gilman Noyes: 
Enlisted in April, 1861, in the First 
New Hampshire Regiment for three 
months' service; re-enlisted in the 
Seventh New Hampshire Volunteers 
Oct. 5, 1861, and was discharged 
Nov. 9, 1864. Was wounded in the 
right shoulder in the engagement at 
Olustee, Fla., Feb. 20, 1864. Died 
July 31, 1889, at Atkinson, N. H. 

1862. Non-Grad. Alvah Kimball 
Potter: Was commissioned at 
Manchester, N. H., Nov. 12. 1861, as 
first lieutenant Company H, Seventh 
New Hampshire Volunteers. He 
served in Florida at Fort Jefferson 
and in South Carolina at Hilton 
Head and Beaufort. On account of 
chronic disease contracted in the 
service he was discharged June 30, 
1862. On partially regaining health 
he was appointed captain, but owing 
to a relapse was unable to accept 
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as captain of Company A, Eigh- 
teenth New Hampshire Volunteers, 
and mustered in Sept. 12, 18G4. 
He was assigned to an engineer 
brigade under General Benham and 
connnanded the battalion, doing 
engineer duty upon the fortifica- 
tions about City Point till January, 
18(35 ; connnanded the battalion in 
the movements about Petersburg 
December 10-13; was on engineer 
duty at Bermuda Front from Jan. 
18 to Feb. 1, 18G5, and at City 
Point till February 5. From then 
till the 12th he was about Peters- 
burg. March 19 his battalion be- 
came a part of the Ninth Corps 
under General Parke. Was in com- 
mand about Petersburg till the 
date of Lee's surrender. By gen- 
eral order of the commander of the 
First Division, Ninth Army Corps, 
he was named for brevet rank for 
" gallant and meritorious service." 
April 4 he was made major of the 
Eighteenth New Hampshire Volun- 
teers. He was mustered out July 
29, 186.3. 

1862. Non-Grad, Samuel Porter 
Putnam: Enlisted in the Fourth 
New York Heavy Artillery, Com- 
pany ]\1, March 20, 1863; mustered 
in June 21, 1863; discharged Jan. 
12, 1864, to accept a commission in 
the Twentieth United States Colored 
Troops ; was commissioned captain 
in this regiment Jan. 20, 1864; 
discharged June 23, 186.5, by Special 
Order No. 275, War Department, 
A. G. 0. 

1863. Joseph Conner Bodwell: 
Enlisted June 24, 1862. The Seventh 
Rhode Island Cavalry, Company B, 
in which Bodwell enlisted, was 
made up largely of college students, 
very many of whom were from 
Dartmouth. These men enlisted in 
response to a call for 40,000 for 
three months' scn^ice, and their 
entire tt-rra of enlistment was spent 
in the valley of Virginia ; they were 
at Harper's Ferry at the time of 
its investment by the rebel forces, 
just before the battle of Antietam, 



and with other cavalry cut their 
way tlirough the lines and escaped 
capture when that stronghold sur- 
rendered. A very interesting sketch 
of the service of this company has 
been published by S. B. Pettengill, 
one of tlieir number. The company 
was mustered out Oct. 2, 1862. 

1863. Wilder Luke Burnap: 
Enlisted in the College Cavaliers 
June 14, 1862, and served with them 
in the valley of Virginia during his 
term of enlistment, which was for 
three months. See sketch of Bod- 
well, '63. 

1863. Sanford Smith Burr: En- 
listed June 20, 1862, while a junior 
in college. In the summer of 1862 
an urgent call came for volunteers 
for three months, and Burr raised 
a company of eighty-three men, 
mostly students from Dartmouth 
and from Norwich University, and 
joined the Seventh Squadron of 
Rhode Island Cavalry in Company 
B. He was elected captain, and the 
boys did good service in the Shenan- 
doah Valley under Gen. Julius 
White and Colonel Miles, and when 
Harper's Ferry surrendered early 
in September, 18G2, Company B, 
with the other cavalry there sta- 
tioned, cut their way through to 
the Union lines, and, their term 
of enlistment soon expiring, they 
were mustered out at Providence, 
R. I., Oct. 2, 1862. The service of 
this company was unique, and 
though short was highly honorable, 
and the college authorities per- 
mitted the students to return in 
the fall term without examination. 
In 1880 S. B. Pettengill, a member 
of the company, wrote a sketch of 
its service in a book entitled " The 
College Cavaliers." An interesting 
feature in it is the verbatim prayer 
of Dr. Lord as they set out for the 
seat of war. Died July 20, 1901. 

1863. Nathaniel Holmes Clement: 
Enlisted in the College Cavaliers 
in .Tune, 1862, and served with them 
till mustered out Oct. 2, 1862. 
Died March 3, 1899. 



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1863. Thomas Cogswell: Enlisted 
in Company A, Fifteenth New 
Hampshire Volunteers, for nine 
months, Sept. 15, 18G2; was im- 
mediately commissioned a lieu- 
tenant, and was promoted to 
captain of the company April 8, 
18G3, and served in the Department 
of the Gulf under General Banks; 
while in Louisiana he was for a 
while an aide-de-camp on Gea. 
Neal Dow's staff. He was actively 
engaged with his regiment in tlie 
capture and siege of Port Hudson 
during May and June, 1863. On 
the 18th of June, three days after 
the last battle of the siege, he was 
taken dangerously ill, and remained 
so till he started for home July 20 ; 
was mustered out Aug. 13, 1803. 
Died Feb. 15, 1904. 

1863. Henry Lyinan Colby: 
Left college in the summer of 1802, 
having been appointed quartermas- 
ter sergeant of Eleventh Regiment 
Xew Hampshire Volunteers Aug. 
21, 1862; served with his regiment 
until the close of the war; was an 
able and efficient man and officer. 
The Eleventh New Hampshire Regi- 
ment was attached to the Ninth 
Army Corps, during its term of 
service, and did duty in both the 
Army of the Potomac and in the 
Avestern army; its commander was 
Col. Walter Harriman, and there 
were several Dartmouth men con- 
nected with the regiment. Mr. 
Colby did not graduate in 1803, but 
received his diploma with his class, 
in 1866, for meritorious service in 
the army. He died at Warner, 
N. H., Feb. 22, 1868. 

1863. Charles Bell Converse: 
Enlisted in the fall of 1862 in the 
Sixteenth Vermont Volunteers (a 
nine months' regiment). This regi- 
ment was commanded by Col. W. G. 
Veazey, and greatly distinguished 
itself in the battle of Gettysburg. 
Converse was with the regiment 
during its entire term of service, 
and returned in time to receive a 
degree of A.B. with his class. 



1863. William Lapham Flagg: 
Was a member of the College Cava- 
liers during their three months' 
campaign in the Shenandoah Valley. 

1863. Zeeb Gilman: Served as a 
sergeant in the College Cavaliers 
during his term of enlistment from 
June to Oct. 2, 1862. 

1863. Edwin Greene: Enlisted in 
the Ninth New Hampshire Volun- 
teers July 18, 1862; was promoted 
to sergeant major July 24; to 
second lieutenant Sept. 29 ; to 
first lieutenant March 1, 1863; 
captain Nov. 1, 1864. The regiment 
was attached to the Ninth Army 
Corps, commanded by General 
Burnside, and Captain Greene par- 
ticipated in every march, skirmish, 
and battle in wdiich the corps was 
engaged up to July 30, 1864, when 
he was wounded in the right shoul- 
der at the battle before Petersburg; 
was mustered out of the service at 
the close of the war, and was given 
his degree of A.B. for meritorious 
service in the army. Died March 
31, 1900. 

1863. Edward Pay son Johnston: 
Was a member of the College Cava- 
liers during its term of service. 

1863. Charles Franklin Kit- 
tredge: Was a clerk in the Ord- 
nance Department at Washington 
from August, 1863, to 1864, and 
during this time was connected 
with a rifle company, composed of 
clerks in the War Department. 

1863. Maitland Charles Lam- 
prey: Enlisted in the Sixteenth 
New Hampshire Volunteers Sept. 
13, 1862. The regiment was mus- 
tered in for nine months October 24, 
and was ordered to the Department 
of the Gulf, where it did duty dur- 
ing the term of its enlistment, being 
stationed at Baton Rouge and 
Butte a la Rose, a place about forty 
miles west of Port Hudson, remain- 
ing at the latter place six weeks. 
Just before the battle of Port Hud- 
son Mr. Lamprey was taken sick 
and lay at the point of death for 
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and was mustered out Aiig. 20, 
18G3, at Concord, N. H. He re- 
ceived his degree of A.B. for meri- 
torious service during the war. 

1863. Charles Willard Morrill: 
Was drafted Aug. 9, 18G3, respond- 
ing to the call September G, and 
went into camp at Concord Sep- 
tember 30; served as clerk at head- 
quarters to November IG, when he 
went to Louisiana, and was assigned 
to the Eighth Regiment New Hamp- 
shire Volunteers, which was then 
stationed at Franklin, one hundred 
miles west of New Orleans ; soon 
after he was detailed as clerk at 
regimental quarters by Colonel 
Fearing; early in January, 1864, 
the regiment was ordered to New 
Orleans and was drilled for cavalry 
service. He was with his regiment 
in the Red River campaign, under 
General Banks, in which he ceased 
to perform clerical duty and 
actively served in all the battles 
and skirmishes in which his com- 
pany was engaged. In the battle 
of Sabine Crossroads, La., he con- 
ducted himself with great bravery, 
having a horse shot vinder him. He 
had another horse shot under him 
at Yellow Bayou, La., and received 
special mention for his bravery 
from his superior oflieers. In this 
campaign he contracted disease of 
which he died at Cairo, 111., Dec. 
8, 1864, when on his way home, 
having been discharged for disa- 
bility November 26. 

1863. Stephen Band: Enlisted 
Aug. 15, 1861, in Berdan's Sharp- 
shooters, and served in the Potomac 
and Richmond campaigns. In 
April, 1863, was honorably dis- 
charged owing to hip-joint disease; 
in October, 1863, was appointed 
inspector of arms at Springfield, 
Mass.; Dec. 17, 1864, was appointed 
third assistant engineer in the U. 
S. Navy, and reported for duty on 
the U. S. S. "Merrimac"; Aug. 12, 
1869, was transferred from the 
Engineer Corps to that of the 
Paymaster Corps, was appointed 



assistant paymaster, and stationed 
at the navy yard at Portsmouth, 
N. H. In 1870 he went with 
the Tehuantepee expedition ; was at 
New Orleans in 1872; in 1873 was 
appointed paymaster, a position 
which he now holds; in 1875 he was 
appointed judge advocate of the 
Pacific Squadron and was sent to 
Japan, returning in 1876, be- 
ing stationed at New Orleans; in 
1877 was on special duty at Wash- 
ington, D. C; from 1878 to 1881 
was at European stations ; from 
September, 1885, to October, 1887, 
he was stationed at the Naval 
Academy, Annapolis, taking a 
course in analytical chemistry in 
order to prepare himself for inspec- 
tor of provisions and stores. The 
degree of A.B. was conferred upon 
him in 1879 for meritorious service, 
he to be regarded as of the class of 
18G3. 
1863. Eri Davidson 'Woodbury: 
Enlisted Dec. 14, 1863, in Company 
E, First Vermont Cavalry, com- 
manded by his classmate, Captain 
Cushman; was promoted to ser- 
geant July 1, 1864. At the battle 
of Cedar Creek, Oct. 19, 1SG4, he 
captured the battle flag of a North 
Carolina infantry regiment. For 
this gallant act Sergeant Wood- 
bury received a gold medal from 
Congress, a furlough for twenty 
days, and a second lieutenant's 
commission in Company E, Nov. 19, 

1864. On the 9th of March, 1865, 
he was struck by a piece of shell at 
the battle of Maynesboro, Va. ; on 
the same day he was commissioned 
first lieutenant of Company B, to 
date Feb. 9, 1865. On April 8, 

1865, he was shot through the left 
arm, and also had half of his right 
hand carried away by a shot, while 
the company was in its fiercest 
charge at Appomattox Court House, 
but he kept his saddle and came out 
of the battle with his company; 
was brevetted captain, to date from 
March 13, 1865, for gallant and 
meritorious services, and mustered 



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out June 23, 18G5; was in the bat- 
tles of the Wilderness, Spottsylva- 
nia, Yellow Tavern, Meadow Bridge, 
Hanover Court House, Ashland, 
Hawes Shop, Bottom Bridge, and in 
nearly all of the battles in which 
the regiment was engaged. The 
First Vermont Cavalry was much 
of the time under the command of 
Gen. George A. Custer, and enjoyed 
the distinction of having captured 
more of the enemy's guns than were 
captured by any other regiment in 
a single engagement. 

1863. Isaac "Walker: Was in the 
College Cavaliers doing duty in the 
Shenandoah Valley from June to 
October, 1802. 

1863. Jolin Stark Cameron, 
C.S.D. : Enlisted in June, 1802, in 
Company B, Seventh Squadron, 
Rhode Island Cavalry, otherwise 
known as the College Cavaliers, and 
served with them during their term 
of enlistment. 

1863. Amos Stoddard Bixby, 
D.M.C. : Enlisted as a private in 
Company H, First New Hampshire 
Heavy Artillery, Sept. 1, 1804, and 
remained with the regiment till dis- 
charged June 22, 1865 ; was pro- 
moted Dec. 1, 1864, at Washington, 
to assistant surgeon of the regiment, 
and put in charge of the hospitals 
at Fort Simmons and Mansfield, of 
the Department of Washington. 

1863. Benjamin Hobbs, D.M.C: 
Was commissioned assistant sur- 
geon Tenth New York Hea\'y Artil- 
lery May 28, 1863; discharged 
March 4, 1864; commissioned as- 
sistant surgeon One Hundred and 
Nineteenth United States Colored 
Troops Aug. 31, 1864; resigned 
Jan. 1, 1805; commissioned assist- 
ant surgeon One Hundred and 
Sixteenth United States Colored 
Troops Jan. 5, 1805; promoted to 
surgeon March 26, 1800; died at 
White's Rtmch, Tex., Aug. 28, 1800. 

1863. David Putney Goodhue, 
D.M.C. : Was commissioned acting 
assistant surgeon U. S. Na\y Jan. 
4, 1864; served on U. 'S. S. 



" Maumee " ; discharged Oct. 9, 
1805. 

1863. Harley Phillips Mathew- 
son, D.M.C: Was commissioned 
assistant surgeon United States 
Volunteers Jan. 7, 1803 ; surgeon 
United States Volunteers March 28, 
1805; brevet lieutenant-colonel 
United States Volunteers Oct. 6, 
1805; mustered out Oct. 7, 1805. 
Died Aug. 3, 1901. 

1863. George Edwin Pinkham, 
D.M.C. : Was commissioned assist- 
ant surgeon Third Massachusetts 
Heavy Artillery March 6, 1865; 
resigned Aug. 16, 1865. 

1863. Horatio Nelson Small, 
D.M.C. : Was appointed assistant 
surgeon Seventeenth New Hamp- 
shire Volunteers, which was con- 
solidated with the Second New 
Hampshire Volunteers April 16, 
1803. On May 7, 1803, he was com- 
missioned assistant surgeon Thir- 
teenth New Hampshire Volunteers, 
and served with that regiment till 
Aug. 20, 1803, when he was pro- 
moted to surgeon in the Tenth New 
Hampshire Volunteers. During a 
portion of the time while the Thir- 
teenth Regiment was in the Ninth 
and Eighteenth Army Corps, he 
acted as brigade surgeon. He was 
also a member of the operating 
surgical staflf of the Twenty-fourth 
Corps to the close of the war. 
While at home on sick leave in 
September, 1864, news came of the 
battles of Fort Harrison, and the 
severe losses of the Tenth and Thir- 
teenth regiments, and although un- 
fit for duty he said : " The boys at 
the front need me. I have promised 
to look out for them. I must go 
back at once; " and so returned. 
Surgeon Small was mustered out 
with his regiment June 21, 1805. 
He died at Portland, Me., Dec. 28, 
1880. 

1863. Isaac Smith, D.M.C: Was 
commissioned assistant surgeon 
Twenty-sixth Massachusetts Volun- 
teers Nov. 7, 1862, and continued 
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his service; was offered the position 
of surgeon in another regiment, but 
preferred to remain with his origi- 
nal command; was, however, often 
detailed to other commands for 
temporary duty, and was at times 
acting surgeon of the Forty-second 
Massachusetts and of the One Hun- 
dred and Sixty-fifth New York 
Durj'ea Zouaves ; was also in charge 
of general hospital in the field at 
Berwick City, La., and in General 
Banks's Teche campaign; was in 
charge of the United States Marine 
General Hospital, at New Orleans, 
La.; in the battle of Lafourche 
Crossing, June 21, 18G3, Dr. Smith 
was taken prisoner, but was re- 
leased on parole; was appointed 
surgeon to proceed to Mobile, Ala., 
with a tlag-of-truce boat that con- 
veyed the commandants at Port 
Hudson and Vicksburg, with about 
1000 wounded Confederate troops, 
from these places on parole for 
exchange. He was also in the bat- 
tles of Sheridan's Shenandoah cam- 
paign till Sept. 19, 1864, when he 
was wounded in the right foot at 
the battle of Opequan, near Win- 
chester, Va.; was mustered out in 
November, 1864, the term of service 
of the regiment having expired. 
Died Jan. 20. 1882. 

1863. Non-Grad. Amos Watson 
Abbott: Enlisted Sept. 2, 18G2, 
in Company C, Sixteenth New 
Hampshire Volunteers, and served 
till Aug. 20, 1863. From 1864 to 
1868 he was employed in the Pay- 
master's Department of the U. S. 
Army. 

1863. Non-Grad. Samuel Jud- 
son Alexander: Left college in 
June, 1862. to enlist in the army 
and was appointed recruiting olTi- 
cer, and Aug. 10, 1862, was mustered 
in as captain of Company B, Ninth 
New Hampshire Volunteers, to date 
July 24. He was in the battles of 
South Moimtain, Antietam, and 
Fredericksburg, and participated 
in the siege of Vicksburg, having 
been invited to act as chanlain of 



the Eighth Illinois, of Logan's divi- 
sion. On July 13 he was severely 
wounded while skirmishing with 
his company in front of Jackson, 
Miss. He was removed in an am- 
bulance to the Yazoo River, and 
died near Haines Bluff July 23. 
January 11 his remains were in- 
terred at Hopkinton, N. H., with 
military honors. The Concord 
Daily Journal said of him: "He 
was a young man of great integrity 
and superior military abilities." 

1863. Non-Grad. William Na- 
thaniel Cook: Was appointed 
July 8, 1862, adjutant of the Ninth 
New Hampshire Volunteers, which 
went into camp at Concord. He 
was taken sick while the regiment 
was in camp there, and died Aug. 
9, 1862, at Dover. 

1863. Non-Grad. Richard Bailey 
Crandall: Left college in the fall 
of 1861, being commissioned ad- 
jutant of the Sixth Vermont Vol- 
unteers. His regiment was a part 
of the Vermont Brigade, so long 
under the command of Gen. L. A. 
Grant, General Sedg\vick's divi- 
sion. In 1862 Adjutant Crandall 
was promoted to be major of the 
regiment and served continuously 
with the regiment in that capacity 
until June 7, 1864, when he was 
mortally wounded by a sharp- 
shooter, during Grant's advance 
on Richmond, and lived but a few 
hours. As a soldier. Major Cran- 
dall had a high reputation among 
his fellow officers and soldiers; his 
courage was dauntless; he never 
hesitated to expose himself as an 
example to encourage his men. He 
is said to have remarked concern- 
ing the charge up the heights of 
Fredericksburg: "To have lived a 
minute then, was worth a thousand 
years." He was a Christian gen- 
tleman as well as a hero. 

1863. Non-Grad. William Gar- 
rison Cummings: Enlisted on 
Sept. 30. 1861, as a private in the 
First Vermont Cavalry; in a few 
weeks he was promoted to second 



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lieutenant. In the fall of 18G2, to 
first lieutenant; to captain in June, 
1863; to major in 1864; to lieuten- 
ant-colonel in April, 1865; and was 
brevetted colonel March 28, 1865. 
His regiment performed long, ar- 
duous, and perilous service, being 
mustered out Aug. 9, 1865. The 
regiment was in seventy-three bat- 
tles and a number of skirmishes 
besides. Colonel Cummings was 
in fifty-nine of these battles. He 
was a fearless rider, and never 
asked his men to go where he was 
not Avilling to lead them. He was 
remarkably cool in danger. On the 
28th of June, 1864, at Bemis's 
Station, on the Weldon Railroad 
in Virginia, Colonel Cummings was 
wounded; a ball entered just in 
front of his ear, passed around his 
head, beneath the scalp, and came 
out under his right eye, carry- 
ing away portions of the nasal 
and cheek bones; the wound was 
a fearful one, but the colonel was 
soon at the head of his command 
again. 
1863. Non-Grad. Oliver Tucker 
Cushman: Enlisted Oct. 12, 1861, 
in Company E, of the First Ver- 
mont Cavalry, and was at once 
appointed sergeant. April 10, 
1862, he was promoted to second 
lieutenant; February 1, to first 
lieutenant, and to captain March 
17, 1863. He was severely wounded 
and taken prisoner July 3, 1863, 
in the charge of General Farns- 
worth, at Gettysburg. Soon after 
he was paroled and sent home. 
His wound in the side of his face 
was very severe and dangerous, and 
for several weeks he was at Han- 
over under the care of Dr. Crosby. 
He never fully recovered from the 
effects of this terrible wound, but 
in spite of the advice of friends and 
physicians he rejoined the regiment 
In October, 1863. The term of his 
company having expired he re-en- 
listed them and they were granted 
a furlough of ninety days. In 
March, 1864, he returned to his 



command. During the battle of the 
Wilderness he commanded a bat- 
talion which did valiant service. 
He was killed at " Hawes Shop," 
near Richmond, Va., June 3, 1864. 
A few days later he would have 
received a commission as major of 
the regiment. Gen. William Wells, 
who was for a long time colonel of 
the First Vermont Cavalry, says of 
him : " He was not only one of our 
bravest, but also one of our best 
men, and had he lived would have 
obtained a high rank in the army. 
His company was devotedly at- 
tached to him, and his superiors 
in command, as well as all his as- 
sociates, bear witness to his high 
character as a soldier and a man." 

1863. Non-Grad. Henry Clinton 
Davis: Enlisted at the outbreak 
of the war, and was commissioned 
captain of Company A, Eighteenth 
Connecticut Vohmteers, Aug. 8, 
1862. His company saw much hard 
service. W^as taken prisoner at 
Winchester, Va., June 15, 1863, the 
regiment losing 597 in killed, 
wounded, and missing, and for ten 
montlis was confined in Libby 
Prison, where he suffered severely 
from sickness; was afterwards re- 
moved to Charleston, S. C, and 
placed under the fire of Confederate 
batteries for several weeks, then 
was removed to Macon, Ga., and 
from there to Columbia, S. C. ; from 
there he escaped, but after 22 day3 
was recaptured, and finally ex- 
changed. Mustered out April 25, 
1865. Died, 1878. 

1863. Non-Grad. William Wal- 
lace Davis, C.S.D. : Enlisted in 
Company G, Thirteenth Massachu- 
setts Volunteers, Aug. 12, 1862. 
He served in the battle of Gettys- 
burg, where he was wounded in the 
right wrist July 1, 1863, and taken 
prisoner. He re-enlisted in Com- 
pany A, Fifty-ninth Massachusetts 
Volunteers, but was afterwards 
promoted to quartermaster ser- 
geant. At the explosion of the 
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wounded, losing an ann. He was 
again promoted, this time to first 
lieutenant, Oct. 7, 18G-i, but re- 
signed his commission November 
20, of the same year. 

1863. Non-Grad. Dennis Du- 
liigg: Left college and enlisted in 
the Fifteenth Vermont Regiment 
Sept. 17, 1862; promoted to ser- 
geant major Nov. 14, 1862. This 
regiment was in the service nine 
months, doing duty in the Depart- 
ment of Washington, and was mus- 
tered out soon after the battle of 
Gettysburg, Aug. 5, 1863. Ser- 
geant Major Duhigg had been at 
home only a short time when he 
was commissioned, Oct. 7, 1863, 
first lieutenant of Company M, 
Eleventh Regiment Vermont Vol- 
unteers, otherwise known as the 
First Vermont Heavy Artillery. At 
the time of his appointment the 
regiment was doing duty in the 
forts, north of Washington, but in 
May, 1864, it was ordered to the 
front and became a part of the 
renowned First Vermont Brigade. 
Prior to the battle of Winchester, 
Sept. 2, 1864, Lieutenant Duhigg 
was promoted to captain. This bat- 
tle was fought Sept. 19, 1864, in 
which Captain Duhigg fell fighting 
bravely at the head of his com- 
pany, saying just before he fell : 
" Come on boys, I have never driven 
you, but I will lead you." He died 
almost immediately after he fell. 
His last Avords being: "My last 
prayer is offered. I die happy." 

1863. Non-Grad. Evarts Wor- 
cester Farr: Was commissioned 
first lieutenant Company G, Second 
Regiment New Hampshire Volun- 
teers, June 4, 1861 ; promoted cap- 
tain January 1, 1862; resigned 
Sept. 4, 1862, to accept promotion 
as major of the Eleventh Regiment 
New Hampshire Volunteers, his 
commission being dated Sept. 9, 
1862; mustered out June 4, 186.'5. 
While in command of his com- 
pany in the Second Regiment, at 
the battle of W^illiamsburg, May 5, 



1862, his right arm was shattered 
by a Minie ball, necessitating am- 
putation. He was sent home, but in 
six weeks returned to the front, 
where he remained with his com- 
pany until promoted. After fight- 
ing with distinguished gallantry at 
Fredericksburg he went with his 
regiment to the West, and partici- 
pated in the siege and capture of 
Vicksburg. During the remain- 
der of the war he served on court- 
martial duty, most of the time 
as judge advocate. Died Nov. 30, 
1880. 

1863. Non-Grad. Albert Elijah. 
Hazen, C.S.D. : Enlisted Sept. 4, 
1802, in Company G, Sixteenth 
Regiment Vermont Volunteers 
(nine months' organization), and 
was mustered out Aug. 10, 1863. 
The regiment was in the Second 
Vermont Brigade, and was com- 
manded by W. G. Veazey, class of 
1859. It did duty along the line 
of the Orange and Alexandria Rail- 
road until late in June, 1863, when 
it was ordered to join the Army of 
the Potomac. It was assigned to 
the First Corps and performed 
distinguished service on the third 
day of the Gettysburg battles, aid- 
ing materially in repelling the 
famous charge of Pickett's division. 

1863-1864. Non-Grad. Alfred 
Augustus Hitchcock: Enlisted 
as a private in Company A, Fifty- 
third Massachusetts Volunteers 
Dec. 9, 1862, for nine months; was 
mustered out of the company Sept. 
2, 1863. Re-entered the service, and 
was mustered in as second lieuten- 
ant Company F, Fifty-seventh 
Massachusetts Volunteers, Oct. 17, 

1863, for three years; promoted 
first lieutenant, same companv, Oct. 
24, 1864; captain, May 19, ' 1865; 
honorably discharged as captain in 
1866; was brevetted major March 
13, 1865, for gallant and jneritori- 
ous service in the field; was 
wounded in the right eye at the 
charge on Port Hudson June 14, 
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At the personal request of Maj.- 
Gen. Nelson A. Miles, he was de- 
tailed for special duty at Fort 
Monroe, and was appointed provost 
marshal on General Miles's statf; 
as such officer, Major Hitchcock 
was the custodian of Jefl'erson 
Davis and Clement C. Clay. 

1863. Non-Grad. Isaac W. Hey- 
singer: Enlisted in the summer of 
1SG2 in the College Cavaliers, com- 
manded by Captain Burr, and 
served with them during their 
short but brilliant career in the 
Shenandoah Valley and at Harper's 
Ferry until mustered out. In June, 
18G3, he enlisted again in the 
cavalry service, serving in the west 
under General Grierson. In the fall 
of 1864 Heysinger was transferred 
to the Army of the James in front 
of Richmond, and served as a cap- 
tain in the Forty-fifth United States 
Colored Infantry in the Fort Har- 
rison and subsequent campaigns; 
in March, 1865, the division to 
which Captain Heysinger's. regi- 
ment was attached was transferred 
from the extreme right, in front 
of Richmond, to the extreme left, 
near Five Forks. The regiment 
took part in the final operations, 
including the capture of Peters- 
burg; was in the advance column 
entering Petersburg, and was put 
under Sheridan's command and 
moved by forced marches with the 
cavalry along General Lee's left, 
taking part in all the operations 
of the pursuit of General Lee. 
After the surrender, on the return 
of the regiment to City Point, it 
was ordered to join the Sheridan 
expedition to the Rio Grande, where 
it kept watch on Maximilian's forces 
until mvistered out in November, 
1865. During Captain Heysinger's 
service in different regiments he 
was private, corporal, sergeant, or- 
derly sergeant, and captain. 

1863. Non-Grad. Edwin Augus- 
tus Knight: Was appointed hos- 
pital steward Fifth New Hampshire 
Volunteers Dec, 18, 1861; dis- 



charged for disability Feb. 7, 1863, 
Falmouth, Va. ; drafted and mus- 
tered in to date Aug. 19, 18G3; as- 
signed to Company F; appointed 
hospital steward Nov. 18, 1863; 
mustered out June 28, 1865. 

His father was surgeon of the 
regiment. 

1863. Non-Grad. Jolin Franklin 
Nelson, C.S.D. : Served in the 
Sixtieth Ohio Regiment as a pri- 
vate from Sept. 30, 1861, to April 
1, 1862, when he was promoted 
sergeant. The service of the regi- 
ment was in Virginia, in the army 
commanded by General Fremont, 
in the spring and summer of 1862. 
He was discharged Nov. 10, 1862, 
his term of enlistment having ex- 
pired. 

1863. Non-Grad. Charles Irving 
Parker: Enlisted in the summer 
of 1862, in the College Cavaliers, 
and served with them during their 
service of four months. 

1863. Non-Grad. Chester Delano 
Pratt: Enlisted Sept. 13, 1861, in 
Company K, First Regiment Massa- 
chusetts Cavalry; served with the 
same for fourteen months, being 
discharged for disability on the 
17th day of November, 1862. 

1863. Non-Grad. Frank Al- 
pheus Putney: Left college in the 
summer of 1861, and was mustered 
into service Sept. 9, 1861, as a pri- 
vate in Company E, Berdan's Sharp- 
shooters, and served with that or- 
ganization during its full period 
of enlistment. The two regiments 
of sharpshooters were attached to 
different army corps and rendered 
very efficient service. A large num- 
ber of Dartmouth students were 
in these organizations. 

1863. Non-Grad. Chester Cotton 
Stevens: Was commissioned Aug. 
10, 1862, captain of Company D, 
Ninth Regiment New Hampshire 
Vohmteers; resigned Dec. 25, 1862. 
During his connection with the regi- 
ment it took part in the battles of 
South ]\Iountain, Antietam, White 
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burg, being a part of the First 
Brigade, iSecond Division, Ninth 
Army Corps. 

1863. Non-Grad. George Henry 
White: Was mustered into the 
Second Regiment United States 
Sharpshooters, Company G, Dec. 
11, 18G1, and was killed at the bat- 
tle of Gettysburg July 3, 1SG3. 
His commanding officer. Major How- 
ell, class of ISGl, reports him as 
a brave and faithful soldier. 

1864. Edwin Freeman Ambrose: 
Enlisted in June, 1SG2, Company 
B, Seventh Squadron, Rhode Island 
Cavalry, otherwise known as the 
College Cavaliers, and served for 
the period of enlistment. The regi- 
ment did duty in the Shenandoah 
Valley and at Harper's Ferry. 
Died Feb. 22, 1894. 

1864. Charles Caldwell: Enlisted 
in June, 1862, in Company B, 
Seventh Squadron, Rhode Island 
Cavalry, and was a corporal dur- 
ing his term of service. The regi- 
ment served till October, 1862, in 
West Virginia, and at the siege 
of Harper's Ferry. In November, 
1864, he was appointed surgeon's 
steward in the na\y, and was as- 
signed to the gunboat " Honduras," 
connected with the East Gulf 
Blockading Squadron, with head- 
quarters at Key West. He remained 
on this boat until the close of the 
■war. 

1864. John Luther Foster: In Au- 
gust, 18G4, was appointed paymas- 
ter's clerk for Maj. I. 0. Dewey. In 
the discharge of his duties he was 
stationed at Hilton Head and Beau- 
fort, S. C, remaining there until 
compelled by sickness to return 
home in January, 1805. Died Jan. 
17, 1890, at Lisbon, N. H. 

1864. William Tenney Gage: 
Enlisted in June, 1862, in Company 
B, Seventh Squadron, Rhode Island 
Cavalry; served during the four 
months' campaign in Virginia. 

1864. Daniel Crosby Greene: 
Enlisted as a private in Company 
B, Seventh Squadron, Rhode Island 



Cavalry, June 17, 1862, and served 
four months in Virginia. 

1864. Ichabod Goodwin Hobbs: 
Was appointed acting assistant pay- 
master from New Hampshire, in the 
U. S. Navy, Aug. 31, 1864; mus- 
tered out July 18, 1865. He was 
attached to the U. S. S. " Una- 
dilla," and participated in both en- 
gagements at Fort Fisher, and later 
in the James River, at the fall of 
Richmond, Va. After the war he 
was appointed assistant paymaster, 
and continued in the regular ser- 
vice. 

1864. Elias Wilkins Howe: En- 
listed in Boston, Mass., Aug. 18, 
1864, as a private in Company E, 
First Battalion, Heavy Artillery, 
Massachusetts Volunteers ; served 
in Boston Harbor during the term 
of service, during which he held the 
position of quartermaster sergeant. 
Discharged June 28, 1865. 

1864. Hosea Kingman: Enlisted 
in September, 18G2, as private in 
tlie Third Regiment Massachusetts 
Volunteers, Company K ; was trans- 
ferred in December, 1862, to the 
United States Signal Corps, and 
remained in that service until mus- 
tered out June 22, 1863. Was 
on Folly Island, Charleston Har- 
bor, at the time of the attack 
of the ironclads on Fort Sumter. 
Died March 29, 1899, at Bridge- 
water, Mass. 

1864. Charles Augustus Towle: 
Enlisted Sept. 17, 18G2, in the Fif- 
teenth Regiment New Hampshire 
Volunteers, for a term of nine 
months; mustered into service Oc- 
tober 8. Mr. Towle was appointed 
first sergeant of the company. The 
regiment was a part of Banks's ex- 
pedition, and reported at New Or- 
leans Dee. 19, after a stormy voy- 
age. The regiment was in camp 
during the winter near New Or- 
leans, and on May 20, 1863, was 
ordered to Port Hudson to engage 
in the siege of that place. The 
siege continued until July 8. Ser- 
geant Towle was mustered out at 



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Concord, N. H., with his regiment, 
Aug. 13, 1SG3. Died Feb. 22, 1899. 

1864. John Jay Tracy: Enlisted 
Sept. 17, 18G4, as a private Fourth 
Vermont Volunteers, Company K, 
and was with that regiment in the 
final battles around Petersburg, 
and in pursuit of Lee; mustered 
out July 13, 18 Go. 

1864. John Calvin Webster: En- 
listed as a private at Boston, Mass., 
Aug. 18G4, in Company E., First 
Battalion, Massachusetts Heavy 
Artillery. 

This battalion was raised for the 
defence of Washington, and was 
sent to Fort Warren, Boston Har- 
bor, until the full complement of 
men was recruited. The danger at 
W^ashington having beeoi averted 
the battalion was kept on garrison 
duty at Fort Warren till the close 
of the war. 

Mr. W^ebster served as adjutant's 
clerk and ward master of the hospi- 
tal and acting hospital steward for 
the Confederate Prisoner's Hospital 
during his term of service. Mus- 
tered out July 3, 1865. 

1864. Nelson Wilbur: Enlisted 
as a private in Company B, Seventh 
Squadron, Rhode Island Cavalry 
and served four months in Virginia ; 
returned to college in the fall of 
1862, and completed his course. 

1864. James Warren Perkins, 
C.S.D. : Enlisted in Company B, 
Seventh Squadron, Rhode Island 
Cavalry, June 24, 1862. The regi- 
ment was in service for three 
months, doing duty in Virginia and 
at Harper's Ferry; mustered out 
Sept. 2G, 1862. Mr. Perkins re- 
enlisted Dec. 18, 1862, in the Seven- 
teenth New Hampshire Volunteers, 
but never left the State, being mus- 
tered out April 28, 1863. Mr. 
Perkins was sergeant major of the 
regiment. After being mustered 
out, returned to college and gradu- 
ated in 1864. Immediately after 
graduation enlisted again in the 
Sixtieth Massachusetts Volunteers. 
The regiment was ordered to In- 



dianapolis, Ind., to guard rebel 
prisoners, and did duty there till 
mustered out Nov. 30, 1864. 

1864. Daniel Byron Bussell, 
C.S.D. : Enlisted at Hanover, N. H., 
Sept. 13, 1864, as a private in the 
Eighteenth New Hampshire Vol- 
unteers; mustered at Concord, 
N. H., as first corporal. The regi- 
ment did duty in front of Peters- 
burg, Va., during its entire term of 
service, and was mustered out June 
10, 1865. 

1864. Henry Luzerne Bartholo- 
mew, D.M.C. : Was appointed as- 
sistant surgeon U. S. Army in 1862, 
and reported for duty at Vicks- 
burg, Miss. After a short term of 
service there he was compelled to 
return home. As soon as he re- 
covered his health was appointed 
assistant surgeon in the na\y, and 
remained in that branch of the 
service three years, principally on 
duty with the East Gulf Squadron, 
stationed off Key West, Fla. ; was 
on duty on the hospital boat 
" Hendrick Hudson." Died Oct. 27, 
1888. 

1864, Henry Melville Chase, 
D.M.C: Enlisted May 2, 1861, in 
Company D, First Regiment Ver- 
mont Volunteers, and was mustered 
out Aug. 15, 1861, by reason of ex- 
piration of term of service. The 
regiment served most of its term at 
Newport News, Va., and was en- 
gaged in one of the first battles of 
the war, viz. : that of Big Bethel, 
June 10, 1861, the commanding 
officer in that engagement being 
Lieut.-Col. P. T. Washburn, D.C., 
1835. 

After muster out Mr. Chase 
completed his medical st.idies, and 
in the fall of 1863 Avas appointed 
acting assistant surgeon U. S. 
Navy, having been assigned to duty 
in the naA^^ yard at Washington, 
D. C. In December, 1863, he was 
ordered to Key West, Fla., and 
was assigned to U. S. S. " Hon- 
duras " of the East Gulf Block- 
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During the summer of 18G4 yel- 
low fever became epidemic on the 
" Honduras," and Mr. Chase was 
strcken, and after recovery was sent 
North on sick leave. On rejoining 
his shiiJ, he was detached and or- 
dered to U. S. S. " Neptune," in the 
West Gulf Squadron. 

He resigned from the service in 
August, 1865, and was discharged 
Sept. 20, 1SG5. 
1864. Orris Orange Davis, D.M.C. : 
Was Iiospital steward at Columbia 
Hospital, Washington, D. C, and 
a surgeon in the Second Division, 
Sixth Army Corps. Died April 20, 
1898. 
1864. Levi Parker Dodge, D.M.C. : 
Enlisted on the 19th of November, 

1861, as a private in Company G, 
Sixth New Hampshire Volunteers; 
was transferred soon after to non- 
commissioned staff, same regiment, 
by Col. S. G. Griffin; was with Gen- 
eral Burnside when he went from 
Fort Monroe to Hatteras Inlet, and 
from there to Roanoke Island, Feb. 
7 and 8, 1862; was on duty with 
the medical staff during the battle 
of Fredericksburg in December, 

1862, and wherever his service was 
needed, until he was taken sick and 
went to a hospital in Philadelphia; 
was discharged at Falmouth, Va., 
Jan. 1, 1863, while holding the posi- 
tion of hospital steward of the 
Sixth New Hampshire Regiment. 
Died Sept. 29, 1893. 

1864. Richard Henry Green, 
D.M.C. : Was an assistant surgeon 
U. S. Navy, appointed from Ver- 
mont, October, 1863, and resigned 
May 18, 1865. His service was in 
the North Atlantic Squadron on the 
steamers " State of Georgia " and 
" Seneca." Died March 23, 1877. 

1864. George Dexter Harris, 
D.M.C. : Was commissioned acting 
assistant surgeon U. S. Na\'y Nov. 
12, 1863; served on U. S. S. "Mag- 
nolia," in East Gulf Squadron. Re- 
signed May 1, 1865. 

1864. Alpheus Enos Hoyt, 
D.M.C. : Was commissioned assist- 



ant surgeon Twenty-fifth Regi- 
ment Massachusetts Volunteers 
Sept. 25, 1863, and served in front 
of Richmond and Petersburg and in 
North Carolina till muster out, 
July 13, 1865; after the war was 
in service of the Freedmen's Bureau 
for a year or more. Died Nov. 23, 
1879. 

1864. Stephen Bartlett Kenney, 
D.M.C. : Enlisted as a private in 
the spring of 1862 in Company F, 
Twenty-third Regiment Maine Vol- 
unteers; was promoted to hospital 
steward soon after, and served in 
such capacity until mustered out in 
August, 1863; returned to Dart- 
mouth Medical College, which he 
had entered in 1861, and, after 
graduating, entered the U. S. Navy 
as volunteer assistant surgeon at 
Portsmouth, N. H. ; was ordered to 
report to Rear-Admiral John A. 
Dahlgren, commanding the South 
Atlantic Blockading Squadron, off 
Charleston, S. C. ; was assigned to 
the U. S. S. " Huron," and served 
on several ships of this squadron 
till the close of the war; was or- 
dered to the U. S. Receiving Ship 
" Constellation," at Norfolk, Va., 
and mustered out in that place in 
June, 1866; was appointed, by Ma- 
jor-General Sehofield, president of 
the Board of Registration for Nor- 
folk County and city of Portsmouth, 
under the reconstruction laws, 
which position he ^vas filling when, 
in January, 1868, he was appointed 
acting assistant surgeon in the 
U. S. Army, and ordered to duty 
at Richmond, Va., in connection 
with the Bureau of Freedmen's Ref- 
ugees; July, 1868, was transferred 
to Yorktown, Va., in charge of 
Freedmen's Hospital, and was mus- 
tered out Jan. 1, 1869. 

1864. Charles Augustine Mc- 
Questen, D.M.C: Surgeon U. S. 
Army 1861-1864; also in war with 
Spain, 1898-1899. 

1864. Calvin Brooks McQuesten, 
D.M.C: Was an acting assistant 
surgeon, serving somewhat less 



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than a year, when he received his 
discliarge from General Barnes. 

1864. Ephraim Carlos Merriam, 
D.M.C. : Enlisted in 1862, and was 
detailed as a nurse; was promoted 
to acting medical cadet in the U. S. 
Army, and was serving at Columbia 
Hospital, Washington, D. C, under 
Dr. T. K. Crosby of Dartmouth Col- 
lege, class of 1841. Mr. Merriam 
remained there until the latter part 
of 1863. In 1864 was commissioned 
assistant surgeon of the Fortieth 
Regiment Massachusetts Volun- 
teers, and sent to the front ; was on 
duty at the battle of City Point, 
Drury's Bluff, Bermuda Hundred, 
battles of June 1 and 3 at Cold 
Harbor, at James River, and Peters- 
burg, Va. He contracted a danger- 
ous sickness during a severe en- 
gagement at Cold Harbor. In De- 
cember, 1864, was transferred to 
Washington, D. C, and became as- 
sistant surgeon in the Quartermas- 
ter's Hospital, U. S. Army, and 
there remained until 1866; re- 
signed on the breaking up of the 
hospital service, and engaged in 
practice in W^ashington, D. C. 
Died Nov. 30, 1895. 

1864. Laroy Frederick Morse, 
D.M.C. : Was commissioned acting 
assistant surgeon U. S. Navy Nov. 
14, 1863; served on U. S. S. "Pro- 
teus " and " Restless." Discharged 
Dec. 7, 1865. 

1864. Andrew Mitchell Peables, 
D.M.C: Was commissioned assist- 
ant surgeon of the Thirtieth 
United States Colored Troops in 
January, 1864; promoted to sur- 
geon March 5, 1865, and resigned 
June 16, 1865. Was for a while 
brigade surgeon on the staff of 
General Delavan Bates. Tlie regi- 
ment was in the battles of Peters- 
burg, Sugar Loaf Hill, and Cox's 
Bridge. 

1864. Atwell William Swett, 
D.M.C: Was commissioned assist- 
ant surgeon Twenty-ninth regi- 
ment Maine Volunteers 16th of 
February, 1865; joined the regi- 



ment near Winchester, Va. ; served 
there until April. After tlie grand 
review at Washington in May, 1865, 
was ordered to Savannah, Ga., after- 
ward to Charleston, S. C Was for 
several months in charge of the 
Brigade Hospital at Darlington, 
S. C Was mustered out with 
regiment March 16, 1866. 

1864. Arthur Hervey Wilson, 
D.M.C: Acting assistant surgeon 
in the army from November, 1863, 
to May 12, 1864; assistant surgeon 
Seventh United States Veteran Vol- 
unteers from May 12, 1864, to April 
30, 1865, when he was mustered out. 
Died May 11, 1890. 

1865. George Francis Hubbard, 
D.M.C. : Served as acting assistant 
surgeon U. S. Army in 1863-1864. 
Died Dec. 29, 1876. 

1864. Non-Grad. Francis Bacon: 
Enlisted early in the war as a pri- 
vate in the Third Battalion, Massa- 
chusetts Rifles, commanded by Col. 
Charles Devens, and served his term 
of enlistment, which was three 
months. He then re-enlisted as a 
private in the Fifteenth Regiment 
Massachusetts Volunteers; in a 
sliort time he received a commission 
as second lieutenant in the One 
Hundred and Second Regiment New 
York Volunteers. While serving 
in this regiment he was instantly 
killed by a bullet through his head 
at the battle of Chancellorsville on 
May 3, 1863. His younger brother 
was afterwards killed in tlie same 
manner. The body of Lieutenant 
Bacon was never recovered, but a 
monument was erected to the mem- 
ory of the two brothers in Rural 
Cemetery, Worcester, Mass., bear- 
ing the inscription on its base, " Par 
nobile fratrum." 

1864. Non-Grad. John Hardy 
Blodgett: Appointed acting assist- 
ant surgeon U. S. Navy, from New 
Hampshire, Sept. 10, 1864; honor- 
ably discharged Sent. 5, 1865. His 
service was on the steamer" Morse," 
in the Potomac flotilla. He was 
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liers under Capt. S. S. Burr (18G3), 
and served in the Valley of the 
Shenandoah during the summer of 
1862. 

1864. Non-Grad. Augustus Bax- 
ter Breed: Left the class in the 
spring of ISGl, and entered the 
army in the capacity of clerk for 
the surgeon of the Mississippi Ma- 
rine Brigade, which position he held 
at the time of his death in 18G3. 

1864. Non-Grad. James Morris 
Chase: Left college in February, 
186L In September, 18G2, enlisted 
as a private in the Seventy-eighth 
Regiment Illinois Volunteers, which 
was attached to the Second Bri- 
gade, Second Division, Fourteenth 
Army Corps, commanded by Maj.- 
Gen. Jeff. C. Davis; was in the 
battle at Chickamauga, where he 
was taken prisoner, Sept. 21, 18G3. 
He was sent directly from the field 
to Richmond, Va., where he was 
confined at the prison called " Scott 
Block," then transferred to the 
Pemberton, thence to Libby Prison, 
where he remained until Jan. 1, 
1864; from that date to Alarch 15, 
1864, he was confined at Belle 
Isle; on the latter date he was sent 
to Andersonville, Ga., where his 
sufl'erings were indescribable; he 
was confined there until Sept. 10, 
18G4, when he was sent to Savan- 
nah, Ga.; remaining here one 
month he was then sent to Millen, 
Ga., where he was confined in a 
stockade, similar to the one at 
Andersonville, remaining there im- 
til an exchange was effected, Nov. 
10, 18G4. He then went home on a 
furlough, remaining until March 
10, 1865, when he rejoined his regi- 
ment at Goldsboro, N. C. Was 
mustered out of the service at the 
close of the war on June 25, 1865. 

1864. Non-Grad. Harrison D. 
Evans: Enlisted as a private in 
Company G, Thirteenth Regiment 
Xew Hampshire Volunteers, Aug. 
18, 18G2; was immediately detailed 
to special duty in the quartermas- 
ter's department, and served there 



for eighteen months, when he was 
detached from his regiment and 
placed in charge of confiscated 
farms, to cultivate them with col- 
ored help that came into our lines. 
He was on special duty during the 
whole term of service, part of the 
time being employed in carrying 
rations to the soldiers at the front, 
under cover of night. The last year 
of the war he was sick with ague 
and rheumatism, contracted while 
in the discharge of his duties. He 
was never oft' duty while in the 
service, and was mustered out June 
26, 1865. 

1864. Non-Grad. Francis C. 
Ewins: Enlisted June 24, 1SG2, in 
Company B, Seventh Squadron, 
Rhode Island Cavalrj'; was one of 
the company who captured the Con- 
federate spy. Belle Boyd; was mus- 
tered out of service Oct. 2, 1862. He 
again enlisted Jan. 23, 1863, for 
three years, in Company H, Second 
Regiment Rhode Island Cavalry; 
was soon after made sergeant 
major. While the regiment was on 
the way to Port Hudson he was 
taken sick with fever, and was sent 
to the hospital at Brashear City, 
La., where he died June 6, 1863. 

1864. Non-Grad. Calvin Web- 
ster Fitch: Enlisted August, 1862, 
in Company A, Forty-fifth Regi- 
ment Massachusetts Volunteers, 
and served with his regiment dur- 
ing its term of enlistment in North 
Carolina ; was in the battles of 
Kinston, Whitehall, and Goldsboro, 
N. C, during December, 1862; was 
mustered out of service July 6, 
18G3. The regiment was called into 
special service at the time of the 
riots in Boston, July 15, 1863, and 
served one week. In December, 
1863, he was commissioned by 
President Lincoln second lieutenant 
Company H, Seventy-sixth Regi- 
ment L^nited States Colored Infan- 
trj', and joined the regiment at Fort 
Jackson, La., Dec. 15, 1SG3. Dur- 
ing the year 1864 was stationed at 
Port Hudson, La.; in March, 1865, 



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he joined the expedition against 
Mobile, Ala. ; at the attack on Fort 
Blakely and Spanish Fort, near 
Mobile, April 9, 1865, he was 
wounded, and on this account was 
sent North and mustered out May 
22, 1865. 

1864. Non-Grad. Edwin La- 
fayette Hovey: Enlisted Oct. 22, 
1862, as a private in Company K, 
Fifteenth Regiment Vermont Volun- 
teers, for nine months' service. At 
the organization of the regiment 
he was made sergeant-major, and in 
November following was promoted 
to second lieutenant, and to first 
lieutenant in March, 1863 ; mus- 
tered out of service July 22, 1863, 
at the expiration of his term of 
enlistment. The regiment during 
its term of service was in the de- 
fences of Washington and along the 
line of the Orange and Alexandria 
Railroad, doing picket and guard 
duty, until just before the battle of 
Gettysburg, when, w4th the Second 
Vermont Brigade, to which it was 
attached, it was ordered to join 
the Army of the Potomac. The 
regiment was commanded by Col. 
Redfield Proctor. 

1864. Non-Grad. John Beed 
Hunt: Left college in 1862 to en- 
list in the U. S. Na\y, and served 
as secretary to the commandant of 
the squadron off Charleston, S. C, 
and also as signal officer, resigning 
his position in 1864. 

1864. Non-Grad. Alonzo Jen- 
kins: Enlisted in June, 1862, in 
Company B, Seventh Squadron, 
Rhode Island Cavalry, and was 
made a sergeant in his company, 
and returned to his home on the 
expiration of tlie term of enlistment 
in tlie fall of 1862. 

1864. Non-Grad. Joseph Ken- 
dall Jenness: Left his class in the 
spring of 1861, and enlisted as a 
private in the Ninth New York 
Cavalry, soon rising to the rank of 
second lieutenant ; he was for a 
short time a member of the body 
guard of President Lincoln, but 



most of his service was in the De- 
partment of the Southwest, under 
General Banks. He served until the 
close of the war in 1865. 

1864. Non-Grad. Charles Web- 
ster Kimball: Left college at the 
close of freshman year, and enlisted 
immediately, in August, 1861, as 
a private in Company H, Twenty- 
second Regiment Massachusetts 
Volunteers, commanded by Col. 
Henry Wilson, then, and for some 
time afterwards. United States 
senator, and subsequently vice- 
president of the United States. 
The regiment was ordered to Vir- 
ginia and assigned to the First Bri- 
gade, First Division, Fifth Army 
Corps, commanded by Gen. Fitz 
John Porter. In the spring of 
1862 the regiment went with the 
Army of the Potomac to the Penin- 
sula and participated in the Seven 
Days' Fight. At the battle of 
Chickahominy his regiment lost 
three hundred men, including Col- 
onel Gove and many other officers. 
When the Army of the Potomac 
left the Peninsula, in August, 1862, 
to re-inforce General Pope, in the 
Second Bull Run campaign, he went 
with his regiment as far as Fred- 
ericksburg, when he was compelled 
to leave it on account of sickness; 
was discharged for general disa- 
bility at Baltimore, Md., March, 
1863. 

1864. Non-Grad. John Brooks 
Le Bosquet: Left the class during 
the sophomore spring term, in 1862, 
and enlisted in Company A, Ber- 
dan's Sharpshooters, commanded 
by Capt. A. B. Jones (Dartmouth, 
1861 ) ; he was detailed as captain's 
clerk; soon after was discharged 
and returned home, and enlisted in 
Company K, Sixteenth Regiment 
New Hampshire Volunteers. Sept. 
15, 1862, this regiment was ordered 
to New Orleans and the swampy 
country of Louisiana. He was with 
his regiment during its nine months' 
service, and was mustered out Aug. 
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1864. Non-Grad. Charles A. 

Manson: Was appointed assist- 
ant surgeon U. S. Navy Aug. IG, 
1864; mustered Nov. 23, 1864; ap- 
pointed assistant surgeon Eighty- 
eighth United States Colored 
Infantry Sept. 19, 1865; mustered 
out Jan. 1, 1866. 

1864. Non-Grad. Charles Amos 
Merrill: Was appointed paymas- 
ter's clerk in January, 1865, and 
served for two years, being sta- 
tioned at Fort Monroe, Newbern, 
S. C, and Wasliington City. 

1864. Non-Grad. Arthur Clark 
Newell: Enlisted Oct. 26, 1862, 
in the Eleventh Regiment New 
Hampshire Volunteers; was soon 
after detailed for duty in the hos- 
pital department and served as 
nurse, steward's assistant, and act- 
ing assistant steward in charge of 
the brigade hospital stores, until 
he was taken sick in Mississippi, 
during the siege of Vicksburg in the 
summer of 1863, when he was re- 
moved to the United States hospital 
at Covington, Ky., where he was 
sick for many weeks; after his re- 
covery he was employed in the lios- 
pital until July, 1864, when he went 
before a board of U. S. Army sur- 
geons for examination, and was 
appointed a medical cadet in the 
U. S. Army, ranking with tlie cadets 
at West iPoint. On May 2, 1865, 
having graduated from the Medical 
College of Oliio, at Cincinnati, he 
was appointed, by Governor Brough 
of Ohio, assistant surgeon of the 
Eighteenth Ohio Volunteers, and 
served with the regiment in Tennes- 
see and Georgia, until mustered out 
of service Oct. 9, 1865 ; he was tlien 
appointed acting assistant surgeon 
U. S. Army, and served with the 
regular troops in Louisiana until 
June, 1866, when he resigned on 
account of ill health. 

1864. Non-Grad. Howard Band: 
Left the class in October, 1861, and 
enlisted Nov. 28, 1861, as a private 
in Company K, Sixth Regiment 
New Hampshire Volunteers; was 



very soon after promoted to ser- 
geant for meritorious conduct. In 
the absence of superior officers he 
was in command of his company 
from Aug. 29, 1862, second Bull 
Run, until his death. In this bat- 
tle, the color-bearer having been 
killed. Rand charged in a shower of 
bullets, bravely gathered up the 
colors and bore them from the field, 
an act which commanded the just 
approbation of his comrades. His 
regiment was on the right of Burn- 
side's corps in the charge across 
the Stone Bridge at the battle of 
Antietam, where he was shot in the 
head, and instantly killed, on Sept. 
17, 1862. 

1864. Non-Grad. John F. Scott: 
After leaving college, during fresh- 
man year, he enlisted as a private 
in the Thirty-sixth Regiment Illi- 
nois Infantry Aug. 1, 1862. The 
regiment was in many small engage- 
ments, and also in the battles of 
Perryville, Ky., and Murfreesboro, 
Tenn. At the battle of Stone's 
River, Dec. 31, 1862, he was taken 
prisoner and conveyed to Richmond, 
Va., where he was confined in Castle 
Thunder and afterwards in Libby 
Prison. 

1864. Non-Grad. Darius Starr: 
Left the class during sophomore 
year, and enlisted Nov. 4, 1861, in 
Company F, Second United States 
Sharpshooters. He was appointed 
a sergeant and served with distinc- 
tion and honor until he was taken 
prisoner by the Confederates at the 
battle of the Wilderness May 6, 
1864, when he was taken to Ander- 
sonville, Ga., where he died Sept. 1, 
1864, probably of starvation. His 
body was not recovered until after 
the war, nor was the place of inter- 
ment of his remains known. His 
grave at Andersonville was then 
identified by Miss Clara Barton as 
number 7606. 

1864. Non-Grad. Charles Carroll 
Talbot: In the fall of 1863 he re- 
ceived an a])pointmont as acting 
assistant surgeon in the armv, and 



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reported for duty to the medical 
director of the Army of the James. 
Throughout his term of service he 
was engaged mainly in hospital 
work, and for three months of the 
time he had charge of a hospital 
transport, which carried the sick 
and wounded soldiers from the 
front to permanent hospitals. He 
remained in the army till the close 
of the war. 

1864. Non-Grad. James Edward 
Watts, C.S.D. : Was appointed 
from New Hampshire March 17, 
1863, third assistant engineer U. S. 
Navy, and promoted Sept. 28, 1864, 
to second assistant engineei'. In 
1863 and 1864 was on duty in the 
West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 
and U. S. S. "San Jacinto." He 
was drowned in Chesapeake Bay 
July 9, 1871. 

1865. Charles Carroll Arms: En- 
listed in June, 1862, in Company B, 
Seventh Squadron, Rhode Island 
Cavalry. This company was com- 
manded by Capt. S. S. Burr (Dart. 
Coll. 1863), and called the College 
Cavaliers. For full account of its 
service see sketch of Captain Burr. 

1865. Joseph. Stanley Chapman: 
Enlisted in June. 1803, in the Col- 
lege Cavaliers. See sketch of Capt. 
S. S. Burr (1863). 

1865. Orland Wales Dimick: Re- 
cruited forty men during August, 
1862, for the Eleventh New Hamp- 
shire Regiment, and was appointed 
first lieutenant of Company H, in 
the same, on Sept. 4, 1862; was 
captured in front of Petersburg, 
Va., in June, 1864; commissioned 
captain of Company F, Eleventh 
Regiment, July 22, 1864, while a 
prisoner of war; escaped from 
prison November 4; recaptured 
November 6 ; escaped again Novem- 
ber 7, and reached the Union lines 
at Knoxville, Tenn., Dec. 5, 1864; 
reported at Washington, and after 
leave of absence returned to the 
regiment, which was then in front 
of Petersburg, March 6, 1865; mus- 
tered out June 4, 1865. The 



Eleventh New Hampshire was one 
of the fighting regiments from that 
State, and was attached, during its 
term of service, to the Ninth Army 
Corps, serving in the Army of the 
Potomac and the Army of the West. 
Several graduates of Dartmouth 
served in the regiment. 

1865. Eugene Stanhope Elliott: 
Enlisted June 24, 1862, in the 
Squadron of the Seventh Rhode 
Island Cavalry, called the College 
Cavaliers, the largest number of 
whom were from Dartmouth Col- 
lege. The term of service was for 
three months, and they were mus- 
tered out Oct. 2, 1862. 

For particulars of the service of 
this organization see sketch of Capt. 
S. S. Burr, Dartmouth College, 
1863. 

1865. Wendell Phillips Hood: 
Enlisted in the spring of 1862 in 
Company A, Tenth Regiment Rhode 
Island Volunteers, for three months, 
and served with his regiment in 
Virginia till the expiration of his 
term of service; in November, 1862, 
he again enlisted for nine months 
in Company F, Forty-eighth Regi- 
ment Massachusetts Volunteers, 
and was with General Banks' ex- 
pedition up the Red River. He 
contracted malarial fever in that 
campaign and was sick for several 
months, returning home with im- 
paired health at the expiration of 
his term of service. 

1865. Charles Lawrence Hubbard: 
Enlisted as a private in Company 
H, Twelfth Regiment Vermont 
Volunteers, Aug. 16, 1862; mus- 
tered into the United States ser- 
vice Oct. 4, 1862; mustered out 
with the regiment July 14, 1863. 
The regiment was a part of the 
Second Vermont Brigade, and served 
during nearly the whole of its term 
in Casey's Division, Reserve Army 
Corps, in the defences of Wash- 
ington, doing picket and guard 
diity along the line of the Orange 
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Station. It joined tlie Army of the 
Potomac just before the Gettysburg 
campaign, and was assigned to tlie 
Third Division of the First Army 
Corps. On the second day of the 
battle of Gettysburg the regiment 
marched to Westminster, Md., as 
guard of the wagon train of tlie 
Army of the Potomac, and from 
there took cars for Vermont July 5, 
its term of service having expired. 

1865. Hiram Augustus Huse: 
Enlisted as a private in Company 
F, Twelfth Regiment Vermont Vol- 
unteers, Aug. 19, 18G2; mustered 
into United States service Oct. 4, 
1862; mustered out July 14, 1863. 

For the history of the regiment 
see sketch of C. L. Hubbard, class 
of 1865. Died Sept. 23, 1902. 

1865. George Henry Ida: En- 
listed in Company K, Fifteenth 
Regiment Vermont Volunteers, 
Aug. 28, 1862; mustered in as first 
sergeant Oct. 22, 1862; mustered 
out Aug. 5, 1863. The Fifteenth 
Regiment belonged to the Second 
Vermont Brigade, and was com- 
manded by Col. Redfield Proctor 
(Dart. Coll. 1851). Died March 24, 
1903. 

1865. Frank Banvard Modica: 
Was mustered into the service Nov. 
20, 1862, as a private in Company 
K, Sixteenth New Hampshire Vol- 
unteers; promoted to sergeant 
major Nov. 22, 1862; second lieu- 
tenant March 18, 1863; discharged 
Aug. 20, 1863. The regiment was 
in the service for nine months in 
the Department of the Gulf under 
Gen. N. P. Banks, doing duty in the 
swamps of Louisiana and at the 
siege of Port Hudson. 

1865. David Robinson Nutter: 
Has same record as Chapman of 
this class. Died May 26, 1883, at 
Hopkinton, N. H. 

1865. "William Alexander Put- 
ney: Enlisted May 9, 1864, at 
Dunbarton, N. H., for sixty days' 
service in the National Guards, 
New Hampshire Volunteer Infan- 
try. Mustered in at Manchester, 



N. H., May 9, and mustered out 
July 27, 1864. The company did 
duty at Fort Constitution, New 
Castle. Mr. Putney died Nov. 17, 
1886, at Fairmont, Neb. 

1865. Charles Henry Sargent, 
C.S.D.: Enlisted July 12, 1864, in 
Company E, Eighth Massachusetts 
Volunteers; mustered in July 19, 
and tlie regiment was at once or- 
dered to Baltimore, Md., and with 
troops from New York, New Jersey, 
Ohio, and Delaware, was organized 
into the Second Brigade, com- 
manded by Gen. Lew Wallace, and 
for some time was engaged in de- 
fending Baltimore. After this duty 
the regiment was sent to different 
parts of Maryland. Three com- 
panies, including Company E, were 
left at Camp Bradford, five miles 
north of Baltimore, where a camp of 
general rendezvous was established. 
These companies were engaged in 
this kind of duty till November, 
when they were relieved by the 
First Maryland Regiment, and went 
home with the last of the regiment 
for muster out, which took place at 
Readville, Mass. 

1865. William Burnham Stevens: 
Enlisted as a private in the Fif- 
tieth Regiment Massachusetts Vol- 
unteers Sept. 19, 1862, was pro- 
moted to corporal, and served dur- 
ing the period of enlistment. The 
regiment was on duty in the Depart- 
ment of the Gulf, and was engaged 
at Port Hudson, La., May 23 to 
July 8, 1863, being attached to the 
Third Brigade, First Division, Nine- 
teenth Army Corps. Mustered out 
Aug. 24, 1863. 

1865. Albert Appleton Chase, 
D.M.C. : Was commissioned assist- 
ant surgeon Twenty-eighth JMassa- 
chusetts Volunteers April 7, 1865; 
mustered out June 30, 1865. 

1865. Charles Hayes, D.M.C: 
Was appointed early in January, 
1863, from Brunswick, Me., acting 
assistant surgeon U. S. Army, and 
on the 13th of the same month was 
ordered to St. Louis, being assigned 



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to the Jefferson Barracks General 
Hospital. In May he was trans- 
ferred to the hospital transports; 
was taken sick at Vicksburg, and 
w^as compelled to return to St. 
Louis. After two weeks there, he 
started for Washington, intending 
to return home, but upon his arri- 
val received orders to report to the 

, McKinn's ]\Iansion General Hos- 
pital, Baltimore, Md. From there 
he was ordered to the Annapolis 
Hospital, Md., where he remained 
until Jan. 31, 18G4. On February 
15 he was sent to Fort Monroe, and 
subsequently appointed to duty at 
Yorktown. As a result of blood 
poisoning he was compelled to 
resign from the service in July, 
1864; recovering somewhat he re- 
paired to Dartmouth College and 
received his diploma in 1864. In 
February, 1865, he was again ap- 
pointed acting assistant surgeon, 
and served at Hilton Head, Charles- 
ton, S. C, and Wilmington, N. C, 
also at Lawrence in the same State, 
with varied experience, until May 6, 
1868, when his appointment was 
annulled at his own request. Died 
June 8, 1894. 

1865. George Canning Howard, 
D.M.C. : Appointed medical cadet 
in 1863; served eight months, and 
was promoted acting assistant sur- 
geon U. S. Army, and was on hospi- 
tal duty in the Department of the 
East, at New York City and Ports- 
mouth Grove, R. I., until the close 
of the war. Was mustered out 
June 15, 1865. 

1865. Edward Joseph O'Donnell, 
D.M.C: Was commissioned second 
lieutenant on the 10th day of Octo- 
ber, 1862, in Company C, Sixteenth 
New Hampshire Volunteers; the 
regiment joined the Banks expedi- 
tion and reached New Orleans in 
December, 1862; there laid in camp 
above New Orleans during the win- 
ter; about the latter part of March, 
1863, joined the Brashear City 
fleet, under Commodore Porter; 
Fort Butte a la Rose was captured, 



and the regiment placed there as 
garrison. On the 20th day of April 
Lieutenant O'Donnell was detailed 
to take charge of a detachment of 
sharpshooters, and ordered on board 
of the gunboat " Arizona." This 
was a part of the force sent for 
opening communication with the 
upper lleet. The " Arizona " was 
the pioneer boat of the expedition. 
About the middle of May, 1863, 
Lieutenant O'Donnell was ordered 
on shore with his men and placed 
in charge of Bayou Sara, as pro- 
vost marshal; June 15, 1863, this 
detachment joined the regiment; 
a few days later Lieutenant O'Don- 
nell volunteered, with others, as 
the forlorn hope, to storm Port 
Hudson; was mustered out with 
the regiment September, 1863. 
After graduating from Dartmouth 
Medical College, in November, 1864, 
was commissioned first assistant 
surgeon in the Thirteenth Maryland 
Infantry, and served till the close 
of the war. 

1865. Phineas Howe Wheeler, 
D.M.C: Is reported to have been 
acting surgeon of the Seventh 
Veteran Reserve Corps in 1864, but 
letters written to him at Alton, 
N. H., his latest residence, elicited 
no reply. 

1865. Non-Grad. Frank Kit- 
tredge Balch: Was appointed act- 
ing assistant paymaster in the U. 
S. Navy March 29, 1865; dis- 
charged Oct. 17, 1866. His service 
was on the ironclad at Waxsaw. 

1865. ISTon-Grad. William Cob- 
leigh: Enlisted Aug. 31, 1862, in 
Company E, Fourteenth New 
Hampshire Volunteers ; appointed 
first lieutenant Oct. 9, 1862; ap- 
pointed captain Company I Nov. 22, 
1864. The regiment was mustered 
into the United States service in 
September, 1862. Capt. Cobleigh 
served with the regiment during its 
entire term of service, being mus- 
tered out July. 1865. The regiment 
served in the Department of Wash- 
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February, 1864, when it was or- 
dered to New Orleans, where it 
served under Gen. B. F. Butler, 
until the summer of the same year, 
when the corps of which it was a 
part was ordered to the Shenandoah 
Valley, and took part in Sheridan's 
campaign against Early, being en- 
gaged in the battles of Opequan 
and Cedar Creek. Early in 18G5 
the Fourteenth was sent to Savan- 
nah, Ga., and did provost duty until 
May .6, 18G5. 
1865. Non-Grad. Henry Guy- 
Ely: Enlisted as a private Aug. 
28, 18G2, in Company K, Fifteenth 
Regiment Vermont Volunteers ; 
mustered into United States ser- 
vice Oct. 22, 1862; mustered out 
Aug. 5, 1863. 

See sketch of Col. Redfield Proc- 
tor (Dart. Coll. 1851). 
1865. Non-Grad. George Quincy 
Garey: Enlisted in Company B, 
Seventh Squadron, Rhode Island 
Cavalry, in June, 1862. For record 
of this service see sketch of Cap- 
tain Burr ( 1863 ) . Mustered out 
Oct. 1, 1862, at Providence, R. I. 
Enlisted Oct. 24, 1863, in Third 
Vermont Light Battery; promoted 
corporal Jan. 1, 1865; mustered out 
June 15, 1865. The battery was 
mustered in at Burlington, Vt., Jan. 
1, 1864, and reported at Washing- 
ton Jan. 18. It remained in camp 
of instruction until April 25, when 
it was assigned to the Ninth Army 
Corps, with which it was connected 
during its entire term of service. 

The battery received its first bap- 
tism of fire at Wilcox Landing 
June 17, 1864. 

During the entire siege of Peters- 
burg the battery served in Fort 
Morton, Fort Meikle, Fort Sedgwick 
(known as Fort Hell), Battery 7, 
Battery 16, and Fort Phillips, and 
also participated in the movement 
of the Second Corps on Ream's 
Station on the Weldon Railroad. 
1865. Non-Grad. George Irving 
Hoitt: Enlisted June 16, 1862, in 
the College Cavaliers ; mustered out 



Oct. 2, 1862. The record of the ser- 
vice of this organization is fully 
set forth in the sketch of Capt. 
S. S. Burr, class of 1863. 
1865. Non-Grad. Samuel Fran- 
cis Murry: Enlisted in Company 
F, Second United States Sharp- 
shooters, Nov. 5, 1851; mustered in 
as sergeant Nov. 26, 1861; pro- 
moted to second lieutenant Feb. 25, 

1863, to date from July 13, 1862; 
promoted to captain Sept. 10, 1863; 
honorably discharged as captain 
Dec. 29, 1864. The Sharpshooters 
did very efficient service in connec- 
tion with the different army corps. 

Captain JNIurry was twice cap- 
tured, the first time at Bowling 
Green, Va., Aug. 6, 1862, and again 
at Weldon Railroad, Va., June 21, 

1864. Brevet major United States 
Volunteers to date March 13, 1865, 
for gallant and meritorious services 
during the war. 

1865. Non-Grad. George Ed- 
wards B/Owell: Enlisted at Clare- 
mont, N. H., Aug. 26, 1862, in Com- 
pany H, Eleventh Regiment New 
Hampshire Volunteers. Died of 
disease at Baltimore, Md., April 
10, 1864. For the military history 
of the Eleventh New Hampshire, 
see sketches of Lieut. A. E. Hutchins 

(1857) and Capt. 0. W. Dimick 

(1865). 
186 5. Non-Grad. Lyman 
Beecher Sawtelle: Enlisted Aug. 
18, 1862, in Company H, Tenth 
Regiment New Hampshire Volun- 
teers. Died of disease Oct. 1, 1863, 
at Amherst, N. H. 

1866. Alson Bailey Abbott: En- 
listed at Readville, Mass., in the 
Fifth Massachusetts Volunteers, 
Company C, July 16, 1864; served 
at Baltimore, Fort INIcHenry, ]\Iono- 
cacy Junction, and at Harper's 
Ferry ; mustered out of service Nov. 
16, 1864. Died Aug. 27, 1894, at 
Glens Falls, N. Y. 

1866. Samuel Peabody Atkinson: 
Was appointed corporal in Com- 
pany D, One Hundred and Thirty- 
fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry ; did 



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DAETMOUTH EOLL OF HONOE 



duty in the Shenendoah Valley in 
18U4, under the command of Gen- 
eral Sigel, serving, in all, five 
months. 

1866. John Edgar Joh.nson: Was 
connected with the Union Army 
during the early part of the war 
as a newspaper correspondent. 
July 25, 1864, he was commissioned 
second lieutenant of the Martin 
Guards and Artillery Company, 
stationed at Fort Constitution, near 
Portsmouth, N. H., where he acted 
as post quartermaster and commis- 
sary for a few months; was 
appointed, Sept. 15, 1864, first 
lieutenant of Company K, First 
New Hampshire Artillery, and de- 
tailed as regimental quartermaster 
and commissary, and stationed at 
Fort Eeno, north of Washington; 
February 15, 1865, he was commis- 
sioned as captain and assistant 
quartermaster United States Vol- 
unteers, and ordered to report to 
General Weitzel, commanding the 
Twenty-fifth Army Corps, with 
headquarters at Bro\\Tisville, Tex. 
After some months of service along 
the Rio Grande, as quartermaster 
of the Second Brigade, he was taken 
sick with breakbone fever, and re- 
signed Sept. 29, 18G5. 

1866. Joseph Perkins Neal: En- 
listed in the " Dartmouth Cavalry " 
June 24, 1862; mustered out Oct. 
2, 1862. For account of this ser- 
vice see sketch of Capt. S. S. Burr 
(Dartmouth College, 1863). 

Mr. Neal enlisted the second time 
Feb. 27, 1865, as a private in Com- 
pany F, First New Hampshire 
Cavalry, and was mustered out 
July 15, 1865, by reason of the close 
of the war. The regiment served 
while Mr. Neal was connected with 
it in the Shenandoah Valley. Died 
at Hanover May 9, 1891. 

1866. William Burton Perrin: 
Enlisted June 14, 1862, in the 
College Cavaliers, and served with 
the company during its term of 
service in the Shenandoah Valley, 
being mustered out Oct. 2, 1862; 



enlisted again Oct 3, 1863, in the 
Third Battery, Vermont Light Ar- 
tillery; promoted to second lieuten- 
ant Jan. 2, 1865; commissioned 
first lieutenant June 13, 1865; mus- 
tered out June 17, 1865. The bat- 
tery was attached, during most of 
its term of service, to the Ninth 
Army Corps, joining the corps 
April 2, 1864, and participating 
in the movement of the Army of 
the Potomac towards Petersburg. 
It did duty while before Petersburg 
in Fort Morton, Fort Sedgwick, 
Fort Meikle, and Fort Phillips. It 
participated in the final operations 
in front of Petersburg, and took 
charge of the captured artillery. 
Lieutenant Perrin, with the other 
officers of the battery, received 
frequent special mention and com- 
mendation for conspicuous gallan- 
try and coolness in action. 
1866. Henry Stoddard Sherman: 
Enlisted as private in Company B, 
One Hundred and Twentieth Ohio 
Volunteers, September, 1861, when 
not quite eighteen years of age; 
was appointed sergeant major at 
once; promoted to second lieuten- 
ant Jan. 14, 1863, for gallant con- 
duct on the battlefield; March 15 
of the same year was promoted to 
first lieutenant of Company I, and 
April 16 made adjutant of the 
regiment, and held that position 
until he resigned, in August or 
September, 1863. From January 
to April, 1863, he served as aide- 
de-camp on the staff of the general 
commanding the Second Division, 
Fifteenth Army Corps; in July, 
1863, he accepted a position on the 
staff of his uncle. Gen. William T. 
Sherman. Lieutenant Sherman 
went with his regiment from camp 
at Mansfield, 0., to Covington, Ky., 
thence by river, in 1862, to Mem- 
phis, Tenn., thence under General 
Sherman to Yazoo River; took part 
in the attack on Haines Bluff; par- 
ticipated in the battle of Arkansas 
Post, January, 1863, thence to Mil- 
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took part in all the operations dur- 
ing the siege of Vicksburg, and in 
the expedition under General Sher- 
man to Jackson, Miss. In Colonel 
Speigel's report of the battles pre- 
liminary to the siege of Vicksburg, 
he makes special mention of the 
services of Adjutant Sherman, and 
among other things says: "Though 
young in years, he has shown him- 
self a veteran upon the field." He 
left the army to enter the class of 
1866. Died Feb. 24, 1893, S.S. 
" Lahn " en route for Europe. 

1866. Henry Wardwell: Enlisted 
at Readville, Mass., in the Fifth 
Massachusetts Volunteers, Company 
C, July IG, 1864; served at Balti- 
more, Fort McHenry, Monocacy 
Junction, and at Harper's Ferry; 
mustered out of service Nov. 16, 
1864. 

1866. Henry Whittemore : En- 
listed at Readville, Mass., in Com- 
pany C, Fifth ]\Iassachusetts Vol- 
unteers July 16, 1864; served at 
Baltimore, Fort McHenry, Mono- 
cacy Junction, and Harper's Ferry. 
Mustered out of service Nov. 16, 
1864. 

1866. Horace Eugene Marion, 
C.S.D.: Enlisted Sept. 16, 1862, in 
Company G, Fifth Massachusetts 
Infantry ( for nine months' service ) ; 
served in North Carolina, under 
General Foster, whose headquarters 
were at Newbern; was in the bat- 
tles of Kinston, Whitehall, Golds- 
boro, Tarboro, and Little Washing- 
ton. Company G was detailed for 
three months for duty on Hatteras 
Island. Mustered out July 2, 1863. 
In 1864 he again enlisted under the 
call for three months' troops in the 
same company and regiment as 
second sergeant. The regiment was 
stationed at Fort McHenry, near 
Baltimore, Md., and did guard duty 
in the State during its term of ser- 
vice. On being mustered out he 
returned to college and graduated 
with his class, and afterwards 
graduated from the Medical De- 
partment of the college in 1869. 



1866. Grenville Mellen Baker, 
D.M.C.: Enlisted Aug. 29, 1862, in 
the Twentieth Regiment Maine Vol- 
unteers; served as hospital steward 
until Dec. 14, 1863; promoted on 
that day to first assistant surgeon, 
and served as such until the close 
of the war; was in the battles of 
Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancel- 
lorsville, Gettysburg, Rappahannock 
Station, Mine Run, Wilderness, 
Spottsylvania, North Anna, Peters- 
burg, Weldon Railroad; in Decem- 
ber, 1866, was appointed medical 
officer to take charge of Freedmen's 
Hospital at Yorktown, and remained 
there until the breaking up of the 
hospital in 1867. Died May 21, 
1886. 

1866. Samuel Powers Carbee, 
D.M.C. : Enlisted as a private Aug. 
22, 1862, in Company D, Twelfth 
Regiment New Hampshire Volun- 
teers; served as such till Oct. 26, 
1863, when he was commissioned 
assistant surgeon of the regiment 
and served as such until close of the 
war, in 1865. While serving as a 
private he was on detailed duty all 
of the time, and, from July 10, 
1863, until promoted, was with the 
Fifth New Hampshire as hospital 
steward, awaiting transfer papers to 
that regiment, which were never 
received and would not have been 
used. During the winter of 1863 
and 1864 was at Point Lookout, 
Md., and went to Bermuda front; 
was executive officer of Point of 
Rocks, Va., hospital from the time 
of its inception till Dec. 23, 1864, 
when he returned to his regiment 
and remained with it till mustered 
out June 21, 1865. The Twelfth 
Regiment was connected with the 
Third, Eighteenth, and Twenty- 
fourth Army Corps, Army of the 
Potomac and Army of the James; 
was in the battles of Fredericks- 
burg, Va., Chancellorsville, Gettys- 
burg, Port Royal, Bermuda Hundred, 
Swift Creek,' Drury's Bluff, Cold 
Harbor, Fort Harrison, siege of 
Petersburg, and capture of Richmond. 



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Dr. Carbee was the first Union 
surgeon to enter Richmond after its 
evacuation in April, 1865. Died 
Jan. 31, 1900. 
1866. Nathaniel Bryant Colman, 
D.M.C. : Enlisted in Company F, 
Seventeenth Regiment JNIaine Vol- 
unteers, Aug. 18, 18G2; was at once 
appointed hospital steward, and 
served as such till Nov. 10, 1863, 
when he was commissioned assist- 
ant surgeon, holding this rank 
until the close of the war, being 
mustered out of the service with the 
regiment June 4, 1865. As assist- 
ant surgeon he had full medical 
charge of the regiment, the surgeon 
being absent on special detailed 
service. During the last two 
months of the war he was detailed 
to accompany the Artillery Bri- 
gade of the Second Army Corps; 
was in every engagement of the 
Army of the Potomac, after and 
including the battle of Fredericks- 
burg; at the time of the battle of 
Antietam was with his regiment at 
the forts near Washington. Rights 
and duties were not at first well 
defined in the medical department 
of this regiment, and in 1862 Mr. 
Colman, then hospital steward, was 
left in charge of a large number 
of sick men, with all the medicines 
of the regiment and five days ra- 
tions, while the army marched 
away; his orders were to remain 
where he was until he received 
further orders. After waiting three 
days, without hearing an\'tliing 
from the army or its whereabouts, 
he turned over the sick to a post 
hospital and set out to follow the 
army, and finally overtook his regi- 
ment at Warrenton, Va. At the 
battle of Chancellorsville he was 
the only one of the regimental hos- 
pital attendants who was not cap- 
tured by the enemy. His ser- 
vice was at the front; and in the 
battles around Petersburg he was 
often exposed to shells and bul- 
lets which were flying night and 
day. 



1866. Frederick Augustus Eld- 
redge, D.M.C.: Enlisted as a pri- 
vate in the Fifth Regiment New 
Hampshire Volunteers Sejjt. 2, 

1863, and was promoted to assist- 
ant surgeon First Regiment New 
Hampshire Cavalry, July 21, 1864; 
was in the battles of Cold Harbor, 
where he was wounded, and Waynes- 
boro, Va., besides several skir- 
mishes. In the fall of 1863 was on 
hospital duty at City Point, Va. 
Left the service July 15, 1865. 

1866. Fernando Coello Sargent, 
D.M.C. : Was appointed medical 
cadet in Columbian Hospital, Wash- 
ington, D. C, April 27, 1863. 
Sept. 8, 1863, he was appointed act- 
ing assistant surgeon in the navy, 
and ordered to duty on board the 
U. S. S. " Penobscot," where he re- 
mained until about the 1st of June, 
1865, when his health broke down 
and he was forced to ask for leave 
of absence. Being unable to return 
to duty he was discharged Aug. 24, 
1865. Died, 1870. 

1866. James Gorham Sturgis, 
D.M.C: Enlisted in August, 1862, 
in the Seventeenth Regiment Maine 
Volunteers, Company H, and was 
appointed hospital steward later. 
He was commissioned as assistant 
surgeon of the regiment Oct. 20, 

1864, and Feb. 2, 1865, was pro- 
moted to surgeon Second United 
States Sharpshooters. Was taken 
prisoner at Chancellorsville on the 
third day of May, 1863, and con- 
fined two months in Libby Prison, 
when he was exchanged; mustered 
out at the close of the war with his 
regiment. Died Oct. 16, 1889. 

1866. Eli Mellen Wight, D.M.C: 
Enlisted May 5, 1861, but was dis- 
charged in July of the same year 
on account of ill health. In August, 
1862, he was commissioned first 
lieutenant Company B, Twenty-third 
Regiment Maine Volunteers. The 
regiment was sent to Maryland, and 
after a short time Mr. Wight was 
obliged to leave the service on ac- 
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tered the service in the Invalid 
Corps, Feb, 9, 1865 ; he received a 
commission as assistant surgeon, 
and was sent to Nashville, Tenn., 
entering upon his duties May 8, 
1SG5, being assigned to the First 
United States Colored Heavy Ar- 
tillery; was afterwards transfered 
to Chattanooga, where he was in 
charge of the hospital until dis- 
charged, March 31, 1866. His full 
record as taken from papers that 
he left was as follows: 

Sergeant Fifth Maine Infantry 
Volunteers May 5, 1861, discharged 
July 15, 18G1. Private Company 
B, Twenty-third Maine Volunteers 
Aug. 10, 1862. Promoted first lieu- 
tenant same date, resigned March, 
1863. Appointed assistant surgeon 
First United States Colored Heavy 
Artillerv, discharged Feb. 9, 1865. 
Discharged March 31, 1866. Died 
.Jan. 6, 1881. 
1866. Non-Grad. Harrison Hume, 
hon. M.S., 1888. 

In October, 1861, joined the Elev- 
enth Maine Volunteers, and was 
mustered into United States service 
as sergeant major. Promoted to 
second lieutenant Company I May 
11, 1862. Promoted to first lieutenant 
and adjutant May 31, 1862. 

The following extract from the 
report of Col. H. M. Plaisted, who 
commanded the Eleventh Maine at 
the battle of Fair Oaks, will explain 
the last promotion. 

Lieuts. Thomas A. Brann, Com- 
pany F, Lewis H. Holt, Com- 
pany A, and Harrison Hume, Com- 
pany I, also Sergt.-Maj. Henry 0. 
Fox, are worthy of most honorable 
mention for their coolness and 
bravery. Lieutenant Hume's good 
conduct was so conspicuous that I 
was happy in having it in my power 
to make him adjutant of the regi- 
ment on the field. 

About Oct. 1, 1862, resigned on 
accovmt of disability at Yorktown, 
Va., and later entered Dartmouth 
College. 

In 1863 was drafted as one of the 



quota of his native town. Reported 
at the rendezvous at Belfast, Me., 
and was rejected for disability, and 
returned to college. Left Dart- 
mouth in 1864, and graduated at the; 
Law Department, University Michi- 
gan, Class of 1867. 

1867. Abram Brown: Enlisted 
Aug. 19, 1862, in the Ninth Regi- 
ment New Hampshire Volunteers, 
and left immediately for Washing- 
ton. The regiment participated in 
the battle of South Mountain, and 
also in the battle of Antietam, 
under General McClellan, and 
moved South with the Army of the 
Potomac towards Richmond in the 
fall of 1862. There was more or 
less fighting along the march, and 
in December the regiment was en- 
gaged in General Burnside's attack 
on Fredericksburg. In this battle 
Mr. Brown was acting as orderly 
sergeant of Company K, and in the 
attempt to take Marye's Heights, 
Dec. 13, 1862, he was wounded, los- 
ing three fingers of the left hand 
and the index finger of the right 
hand. He was also otherwise in- 
jured. March 4, 1863, he was dis- 
charged for disability. 

1867. John Nichol Irwin: Was 
a sergeant in Company C, Forty- 
fifth low^a Infantry, organized at 
Keokuk May 25, 1864, to serve one 
hundred days, and was mustered 
out of service Sept. 16, 1864. It 
was on duty in Tennessee, guarding 
railroads and military posts, tak- 
ing the place of veteran troops re- 
quired by General Sherman in the 
Atlanta campaign. 

1867. William Alexander Ketch- 
am: Enlisted in February, 1864, 
as a private in the Thirteenth Regi- 
ment Indiana Volunteers; promoted 
in November, 1864, to second lieu- 
tenant Company E, and served aa 
such until some time in January, 
1865, when he was placed in com- 
mand of Company C, remaining 
with that company until the fol- 
lowing April or May, wlien he was 
commissioned and mustered as 



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captain of Company I, which he 
commanded until mustered out at 
Goldsboro, N. C, September, 1805. 
His active service was with the 
Tenth Corps in the Army of tlie 
James, from the opening of the cam- 
paign in jNIay, 1804, at and around 
Bermuda Hundred, until the latter 
part of May, when, together with 
the Second Division of the Eigh- 
teenth Corps, the Division of the 
Tenth, to which the Thirteenth 
Indiana belonged, joined the Army 
of the Potomac, on the 1st of June, 
and participated in the battle of 
Cold Harbor and the campaign con- 
nected therewith; returning to 
Petersburg about the 14th of June, 
the regiment participated in the 
attack on that city. Captain 
Ketcham continued with the Army 
of the James until November, 1864, 
when he, with others, under Gen- 
eral Butler, went to New York for 
duty during the presidential elec- 
tion. The Thirteenth Indiana was 
in General Butler's expedition 
against Fort Fisher, and also in the 
expedition under General Terry, 
which captured that fortification. 
The battle of Fort Fisher was the 
last serious engagement in which 
Captain Ketcham participated, al- 
tliough the regiment had sharp 
skirmishing in the following Febru- 
ary, when on its way to join Sher- 
man's army at Cox's Bridge. 
Captain Ketcham was slightly dis- 
abled at the battle of Fort Fisher, 
but not enough to prevent him from 
going througli the fight. 
1867. Thomas Lecky: Enlisted in 
the fall of 1862 in Company I, 
Forty-third Regiment Massachu- 
setts Volunteers. The regiment was 
stationed at Newbern, N. C, for 
some time, and was connected with 
the expedition from Newbern to 
Goldsboro ; was in the battles of 
Kinston, Whitehall, and Goldsboro; 
subsequently the regiment was en- 
gaged in the operations around Lit- 
tle Washington in North Carolina; 
in the latter part of June, 1863, 



was sent from North Carolina to 
White House Landing, Va., and 
formed a part of a force that was 
being assembled for a project which 
was found impracticable and was 
abandoned. 

1867. John Henry Patterson: 
Enlisted in the One Hundred and 
Thirty-first Ohio (one hundred 
days' regiment) in 1864; the ser- 
vice of the regiment was to guard 
property while the army went to 
the front. 

1867. Alfred Addison Thomas: 
Enlisted at 17 years of age in Com- 
pany B, Fourth Independent Bat- 
talion, Ohio Cavalry, which was or- 
ganized at Dayton, 0. Just as the 
battalion was oi'ganized John Mor- 
gan made his raid in Ohio and Indi- 
ana, and the battalion took part in 
the pursuit and captured many of 
his men. With the invasion of East 
Tennessee, the battalion went to 
Knoxville and took part in the win- 
ter campaign which included the 
capture of Knoxville, and its siege 
by Longstreet's corps. The organi- 
zation was in service about nine 
months. 

1867. Charles Carroll Woodman: 
Entered the service Aug. 29, 1802, 
as hospital nurse, and was located 
in hospitals at Alexandria, Va.; was 
promoted to the position of assist- 
ant surgeon at the same place; 
mustered out June 15, 1863. Died 
Oct. 26, 1890, at Fair Haven, Mass. 

1867. Non-Grad. Edward Kirk 
White: Enlisted March 3, 1865, 
in Company K, Eighteenth New 
Hampshire Volunteers, for one 
year; commissioned second lieu- 
tenant Company I March 22, 1805; 
discharged July 3, 1865. During 
his brief period of service the regi- 
ment was attached to the Ninth 
Army Corps, and was engaged in 
front of Fort Stedman. On the 3d 
of April it entered Petersburg. 

1867. Doane Blood Colcord, 
C.S.D. : Was musician in Company 
G, first Maine Hea^'y Artillery, in 
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1867. George Byron Lane, C.S.D. : 
Enlisted Oct. 17, 1802, in Fifteenth 
New Hampshire Volunteers; ap- 
pointed commissary sergeant Feb. 
4, 180-4; second lieutenant. May 
26, 1865, but not mustered. Mus- 
tered out as sergeant June 21, 
1865. 

1867. Francis Erving Bradford, 
D.xM.C: Enlisted Oct. 24, 1861, 
when nearly seventeen years of 
age, in the Seventh Regiment New 
Hampshire Volunteers, and was 
with the regiment while it was 
operating in Florida, Georgia, 
South Carolina, and along the 
Gulf of Mexico; was in every 
battle, skirmish, or scouting expe- 
dition that the regiment was en- 
gaged in during his term of ser- 
vice; was off duty only once until 
wounded, the regiment doing con- 
tinuous duty along the coast from 
Tortugas Island to Key West, from 
there to the swamps of South Caro- 
lina and the everglades of Florida, 
up and down the coast, then to the 
siege of Charleston. On the 18th 
day of July, 1803, at the bloody 
assault on Fort Wagner, while 
making a bayonet charge, Mr. Brad- 
ford was severely wounded in the 
right leg by a shell, and tumbled 
into the water moat; while in the 
moat he was again struck with a 
piece of a shell on the left shoul- 
der. His sufferings were great and 
he came near bleeding to death, and 
after forty-eight hours of practical 
unconsciousness found himself in 
Beaufort, S. G. In the spring of 
1864 was reported to be unservice- 
able and received his discharge. 

1867. Daniel Wright Dimock, 
D.M.C.: Enlisted in Company H, 
Twenty-fifth Regiment Connecticut 
Volunteers, in September, 1862; in 
January, 1863, was detailed as act- 
ing hospital steward ; served on 
this duty till the following June, 
with the command of General 
Banks, at Ginwood Hospital. Aft<>r 
the fall of Port Hudson he returned 
North, and was mustered out Sep- 



tember, 1863; re-enlisted in the 
Twenty-ninth Regiment Connecti- 
cut Volunteers, as hospital steward, 
in March, 1863 ; was in charge of 
the hospital at Grapevine Point, 
New Haven, Conn., till May, 1864, 
when the regiment was ordered to 
Beaufort, S. C, where it remained 
until October, 1864, when it was 
ordered to Bermuda Hundred, Va. 
Mr. Dimock was in the light at the 
explosion of the Mine and at the 
taking of Richmond ; was soon after 
sent to Texas, and served on the 
Rio Grande River to Brownsville, 
remaining there till September, 
1865, when the regiment returned 
North and was mustered out. He 
participated in sixteen battles; was 
taken prisoner at Beaufort, but 
soon after escaped. 

1867. Ira Pearson George, D.M.C.: 
Enlisted July 26, 1801, in Company 
B, Third Regiment New Hampshire 
Volunteers, and served with the 
regiment in the Department of the 
South; was in the battles of Port 
Royal and the assault on Fort 
Wagner; was wounded July, 1863, 
at Morris Island, S. C. ; discharged 
for disability April 18, 1864, at 
David's Island, N. Y. 

1867. Hiram Tenney Hardy, 
D.M.C.: Enlisted June 24, 1862, in 
the College Cavaliers, under Capt. 
S. S. Burr, Dartmouth College, 
1863. 

For record of service see sketch 
of Captain Burr. Mustered out 
Oct. 2, 1862. Enlisted Oct. 28, 
1863, in Third Vermont Battery, 
and mustered out June 15, 1805. 
This battery was attached to the 
Ninth Army Corps and was engaged 
constantly in front of Petersburg, 
Va., from June 20, 1864, to the 
evacuation in April, 1865. 

1867. Darwin L. Manchester, 
D.M.C. : Enlisted in Company G, 
Twenty-first Wisconsin Volunteers, 
Aug. 9, 1862; promoted to orderly 
sergeant; seriously wounded at the 
battle of Perrvville, Ky.. and dis- 
abled from further service. Dis- 



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charged Dee. 18, 1862. Died Aug. 
11, 1895, at Waupaca, Wis. 

1867. Ezra Mitchell, D.M.C.: En- 
listed in June, 1804, in the Ninth 
Maine Regiment Volunteers; was 
stationed at Camp Berry, Portland, 
Me., during that summer, and was 
acting as an assistant to the hospi- 
tal steward. In Seijtember or Oc- 
tober, 1864, was appointed medical 
cadet U. S. Army, and stationed at 
Coney General Hospital, Augusta, 
Me., where he served until mustered 
out Nov. 5, 1865. 

1867. William Wirt Piper, D.M.C. : 
Was commissioned assistant sur- 
geon in January, 1865, while still 
a student in Dartmouth Medical 
College; mustered into service 
Feb. 3, 1865, as assistant surgeon 
Thirteenth United States Colored 
Heavy Artillery; regiment did gar- 
rison duty at Smithland, Casey- 
ville, and Covington, Ky. Was 
mustered out of service Nov. IS, 
1865, by reason of expiration of 
term of service. 

1867. Andrew Bobinson Gid- 
dinge Smith, D.M.C: Enlisted in 
the Second Maine Cavalry Novem- 
ber, 1863, and was appointed hos- 
pital steward of the regiment; 
acted often as assistant surgeon, 
and was later promoted to that 
position; was in charge of the 
hospital at Pensacola, Fla., from 
May 1 to November, 1865. In 1864 
he participated in the engagements 
at Forts Morgan and McCrea, below 
Mobile, and in several raids into 
Alabama and central Florida; in 
the spring of 1865 took part in the 
siege of Mobile; after being mus- 
tered out of the Second Maine Cav- 
alry was commissioned as assistant 
surgeon in the Freedmen's Bureau. 

1867. Hermon Joseph Smith, 
D.M.C. : Was commissioned assist- 
ant surgeon Fifth United States 
Colored Cavalry Oct. 8, 1864, and 
was mustered out of service March 
16, 1866. This regiment was in the 
battles of Saltville, Hopkinsville, 
Harrodsburg, and Simpsonville. 



1868. Samuel Folsom Beede, 
C.S.D.: Enlisted Aug. 6, 1802, as 
a private in tne Fourteenth New 
Hampshire Volunteers. Was after- 
wards promoted to sergeant June 
17, 1864; was wounded in the battle 
of Cedar Creek, Va., Oct. 19, 1864. 
Was mustered out with his com- 
pany May 24, 1865. 

1868, Kimball Foster Blaisdell: 
Enlisted June 24, 1862, in Company 
B, Seventh Squadron, Rhode Island 
Cavalry. Upon the expiration of 
his term of service in Virginia he 
returned to his class in the fall of 
1862; in the spring of 1863 he 
again left the class and enlisted in 
the na\y, where he remained for 
about eighteen months, serving on 
U. S. S. "Ohio" and "Vermont." 
Died June 23, 1890, at Concord, 
N. H. 

1868. Aaron Dayton Condit: 
Served as sergeant in One Hundred 
and Thirty-third Indiana Volun- 
teers, which was a one-hundred- 
day regiment. 

1868. Carlos White: Enlisted Aug. 
15, 1862, in Company H, Twelfth 
Regiment Vermont Volunteers ; 
mustered out July 14, 1863. For 
details of the service of the regi- 
ment see sketch of E. D. Redington 
(1861). Died Jan. 20, 1901. 

1868. Timothy Avans Haley, 
D.M.C: Enlisted in Company K, 
Twelfth Regiment New Hampshire 
Volunteers, Aug. 18, 1862; trans- 
ferred to Veteran Reserve Corps 
Sept. 3, 1863; assigned to Com- 
pany C, Eighteenth Regiment Vet- 
eran Reserve Corps. Discharged 
July 10, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 
During Mr. Haley's service with the 
Twelfth New Hampshire the regi- 
ment served in the Defences of 
Washington and with the Third 
Corps, Army of the Potomac, in 
Whipple's division. 

1868. William Hart Hlldreth, 
D.M.C: Enlisted Aug. 26, 1864, in 
Company H, Fourth Massachusetts 
Heavy Artillery; mustered out 
June'lT, 1865. Died Jan. 16, 1903. 



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1868. Charles Warren Greene, 
D.M.C.: Enlisted July 19, 1862, as 
a private in Company F, Thirty- 
fifth Regiment Massachusetts Vol- 
unteers; served with the regiment 
till Aug. 17, 1864, and was detailed 
one year of the time on hospital 
duty; was promoted to a captaincy 
in the One Hundred and Sixteenth 
Regiment United States Colored 
Troops; was on hospital duty on 
several of the great battlefields of 
the war, and Avas actively engaged, 
as a soldier, in the siege of Vicks- 
burg, in the second battle of Jack- 
son, Miss., in the various opera- 
tions of the Army of the James, 
before Richmond in the last win- 
ter of the war; was in the final 
attack upon Petersburg, in 1865, 
and present on the field at Ap- 
pomattox Court House April 9^ 
1865; was mustered out July 9, 

. 1865. 

1868. John Duhig Malone, D.M.C. : 
Was commissioned acting assistant 
surgeon Oct. 20, 1864. Honorably 
discharged May 2, 1868. 

1868. Nelson Howard Morris, 
D.M.C: Enlisted Oct. 1, 1861, in 
Company F, Eleventh Regiment 
Maine Volunteers; wounded at 
Fair Oaks, Va., May 31, 1862; pro- 
moted to hospital steward Nov. 22, 
1862; resigned his warrant. Trans- 
ferred to Company C May 1, 1864; 
promoted to corporal ; wounded at 
Strawberry Plains, Va., July 26, 
1864; promoted to second lieuten- 
ant Company B Aug. 13, 1864; 
wounded at Hatchers Run, Va., 
April 2, 1S65; promoted to first 
lieutenant Company D April 16, 
1865; mustered out Feb. 2, 1866. 

' Died at Downers Grove, 111., Dec. 
15, 1894. 

1869. Charles William Bartlett: 
Enlisted in Company A, Fifth Mas- 
sachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and 
was mustered into the United 
States service July 23, 1864, for 
one hundred days; mustered out 
Nov. 16, 1864, by reason of expira- 
tion of term of service. 



1869. James Byron Brooks: En- 
listed May 2, 1861, under the first 
call for 75,000 volunteers, in the 
Bradford C^uards, at Bradford, Vt., 
which became part of the First 
Regiment of Vermont Volunteers, 
which was called into service for 
three months. The regiment was 
stationed at Fort Monroe and New- 
port News during the most of its 
term of service, and took part in 
the battle of Big Bethel. Upon 
the expiration of his term of ser- 
vice he re-enlisted in Company H, 
Fourth Vermont Regiment, and on 
Sept. 12, 1861, was commissioned 
second lieutenant in that company. 
The regiment became a part of 
the famous First Vermont Brigade, 
and was connected with the Sixth 
Corps, Army of the Potomac, 
throughout the war. Dec. 28, 1861, 
Lieutenant Brooks was detailed for 
duty in the United States Signal 
Corps by General Hancock; was 
promoted to first lieutenant of 
Company I Jan. 19, 1862. He 
served in the field as signal officer 
with the Army of the Potomac, and 
participated in all the battles in 
which tliat army was engaged (ex- 
cept the battles on the Peninsula, 
under General McClellan, at which 
time he was serving with General 
McDowell in front of Fredericks- 
burg), and subsequently under Gen- 
eral Pope, and took part in the 
battles of Cedar Mountain, Second 
Bull Run, and the other battles of 
General Pope's campaign. At his 
solicitation Lieutenant Brooks was 
allowed to return to his regiment 
Aug. 31, 1863. He served thereafter 
with it imtil May 6, 1864, when in 
the battle of the Wilderness he re- 
ceived a gun-shot wound which ter- 
minated his term of service. He 
was taken to the Seminary Hospi- 
tal, in Georgetown, and later to 
Annapolis, Md., and Aug. 5, 1864, 
having been examined by a IMcdical 
Board, he was honorably discharged 
by reason of wounds received in ac- 
tion. He was commissioned cap- 



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tain of Company H, Fourth Ver- 
mont Regiment, April 19, 18G4. 
1869. Franklin James Burnham: 
Enlisted July 25, 18G2, in Company 
E, Ninth New Hampshire Volun- 
teers, and was mustered out June 
10, 1865, at the close of the war; 
was promoted to corporal Feb. 1, 
1863; sergeant, March 1, 1864; 
first sergeant, July 1, 1864; second 
lieutenant, Nov. 2, 1864, and first 
lieutenant, Feb. 1, 1865, from which 
date he had command of his com- 
pany and was in every engagement 
in which his regiment participated, 
the more important being South 
Mountain, Antietam, Fredericks- 
burg, siege of Vieksburg, Jackson, 
Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold 
Harbor, and the siege of Peters- 
burg. The regiment was attached 
to the Ninth Army Corps and served 
in the Army of the Potomac and in 
the Army of the West. From about 
Aug. 25 to Dec. 25, 1863, Lieuten- 
ant Burnham was in the hospi- 
tals at Covington, Ky., and Camp 
Denison, 0., as the result of a 
fever contracted in Mississippi 
swamps. On its return to Ken- 
tucky from the Mississippi cam- 
paign, the regiment was so crippled 
by the sickness of its members that 
it was put on detached duty, guard- 
ing the Kentucky Central Railroad 
during the remainder of that year, 
which was its only period of light 
duty. Lieutenant Burnham was 
discharged from the hospital about 
December 20 and assigned to the 
Veteran Reserve Corps, but not lik- 
ing this service, he deserted, and 
made his way to his regiment and 
reported for duty. It was a deser- 
tion of an unusual sort and had 
something to do with subsequent 
promotions. Soon after rejoining 
the Ninth New Hampshire, the regi- 
ment was ordered to Knoxville, 
Tenn., and not long after the Ninth 
Corps was sent to Virginia. The 
regiment began the Wilderness cam- 
paign Avith 550 men in the ranks, 
and a proportionate number of offi- 



cers, and before its close its casu- 
alties in killed, wounded, and miss- 
ing, together with those sent to the 
hospital, exceeded the number with 
which it started out. Lieutenant 
Burnham writes that he never re- 
gretted his desertion, notwithstand- 
ing the hardships which the regi- 
ment endured. He was slightly 
wounded two or three times, but 
not seriously. Died April 17, 1898, 
at Moorehead, Minn. 

1869. Albert Wheaton Cooke: 
Enlisted Sept. 6, ISGl, for three 
years, in the Twenty-fiftli Massa- 
chusetts Volunteers, Company B; 
made sergeant April 16, 1862; first 
sergeant, Oct. 9, 1862; discharged 
to accept position of second lieu- 
tenant in the Fifty-seventh Massa- 
chusetts Volunteers Jan. 7, 1864; 
promoted to first lieutenant Com- 
pany I, Fifty-seventh JNIassachu- 
setts, March 4, 1864, and to captain, 
same company, June 18, 1865; was 
detailed as provost marshal Third 
Brigade, First Division, Ninth 
Army Corps ; was in command of 
the Fifty-seventh Regiment from 
March, 1865 (Fort Stedman and 
repulse of General Gordon, before 
Petersburg), to April 3 (the evacu- 
ation of Petersburg by General 
Lee) ; detailed as assistant adju- 
tant-general Third Brigade, First 
Division, Ninth Army Corps, May 
3, 1865; fought in the course of 
service, under two enlistments, at 
Roanoke Island, N. C, Feb. 8, 1862; 
Newbern, N. C, March 14, 1862; 
Kinston, Whitehall, Goldsboro, 
N. C, and the other battles of 
that campaign ; Wilderness, Va., 
May 6, 1864, and the other battles 
connected with General Grant's 
movement on Richmond in the 
spring of 1865, and in all the en- 
gagements before Petersburg, which 
resulted in the evacuation of that 
city; in the pursuit of Lee; also 
in the pursuit of the Lincoln as- 
sassins. Died Nov. 20, 1903. 

1869. William Dearborn Haley: 
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pany L of the First Regiment New 
Hampsliii-e Heavy Artillery; ap- 
pointed commissary sergeant Nov. 
9, 1864; mustered out June 15, 
1865, by reason of close of the war. 
The regiment served in the Defences 
of Washington. Died, 1888. 

1869. Rollin Orlando Linsley: 
Enlisted Oct. 2, 18(31, in Company 
A, Sixth Regiment Vermont Vol- 
unteers, which was commanded by 
Geo. Parker, Jr. (Dart. Coll. 18G0). 
The history of this regiment is a 
part of that of the famous Vermont 
Brigade, in which were many Dart- 
mouth men. Linsley was discharged 
for disability Sept. 26, 1862. Died, 
1879. 

1869. James McAllister, C.S.D.: 
Served as a private three months 
in Manchester Mechanics Phalanx. 
Enlisted April 24, 1861; discharged 
July 12, 1861. On State duty at 
Fort Constitution, Portsmouth'. 
N. H. 

1869. George Washington Morse, 
C.S.D.: Enlisted on the 11th day 
of May, when in his 16th year, as 
a private in the Second Massachu- 
setts Volunteers. He served from 
May, 1861, to July, 1865, continu- 
ously in this regiment, and of the 
original one thousand men who left 
Massachusetts in 1861 (this being 
the first three years' regiment in 
the field from Massachusetts) he 
was one of less than one hundred 
men who returned with it in 1865. 
The regiment during the war re- 
ceived seventeen hundred recruits, 
making in all twenty-seven hun- 
dred men that served in the regi- 
ment. In the Shenandoah cam- 
paign, in 1862, the Second Mas- 
sachusetts covered Banks' retreat, 
and its losses were very heavy. 
During this retreat Mr. Morse, with 
others, was captured, and spent four 
months at Belle Isle and other 
southern prisons ; on being ex- 
changed, he at once returned to 
service. With the exception of the 
time while he was a prisoner, he 
•was in every campaign and battle 



in which his regiment took part. 
He was promoted successively to 
sergeant and first sergeant, and at 
the close of the war was first lieu- 
tenant of Company I, being only 
nineteen years of age. He was the 
only original member of Company H 
that received a commission. The 
Second Massachusetts served in all 
the important campaigns of the 
Army of the Potomac until Sep- 
tember, 1863. At the battle of 
Cedar Mountain it lost a third of 
its men and more than half of its 
officers. At Antietam and Chancel- 
lorsville its losses were also very 
heavy, and at Gettysburg one-half 
of the regiment fell in less than ten 
minutes in charging the Confeder- 
ate works at the base of Gulp's 
Hill. The first regimental monu- 
ment on the battlefield of Gettys- 
burg, where there are now some five 
hundred monuments, was erected 
by the officers of the Second Mas- 
sachusetts. In September, 1863, 
the Twelfth Corps, of which the 
Second Regiment was a part, was 
sent to the Southwest with the 
Eleventh Corps, both under the 
command of General Hooker. Gen- 
eral Hooker, Avith these corps, 
fought in the celebrated battle of 
Lookout Mountain; soon after, 
they were consolidated and called 
the Twentieth, and took part in all 
the subsequent campaigns of Gen- 
eral Sherman's army. The Second 
Massachusetts was the first regi- 
ment to enter the city of Atlanta 
after its surrender, and had charge 
of the destruction of the public 
buildings in that city previous to 
the evacuation and the march to 
the sea, and was the last regiment 
to leave the city. Lieutenant Morse 
was mustered out July 9, 1865. 
1869. Edward Everett Parker: 
Enlisted on the 20th day of August, 
1863, from Brookline, N. H., as a 
landsman in the U. S. Navy, to 
serve for one year. His service was 
on board the U. S. Brig " Perry," 
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Atlantic Squadron; he was dis- 
charged at Philadelphia Oct. 10, 
1864. He was rated as ship's yeo- 
man soon after going on board the 
" Perry," and held that position 
during his service. 

1869. Oscar David Bobinson: 
Enlisted July 25, 18G2, and was ap- 
pointed sergeant in the Ninth New 
Hampshire Volunteers ; promoted 
to second lieutenant Jan, 2, 1864; 
to first lieutenant, Nov. 1, 1864; 
appointed adjutant March 8, 1865; 
promoted to captain May, 1865; 
mustered out June 15, 1865, at the 
close of the war. Captain Robinson 
served continuously with the Ninth 
New Hampshire; was not wounded, 
and was sick for a short time only 
during his whole term of service. 
The regiment was attached to the 
Ninth Army Corps, and its service 
is more fully detailed in the record 
of Lieutenant Burnham, also of the 
class of 1869. In Fox's "Regi- 
mental Losses in the Civil War " the 
Ninth Corps is called " A Wander- 
ing Corps, its dead lie buried in 
seven States." 

1869. Non-Grad. George Wash- 
ington Hardy, C.S.D. : Enlisted 
Aug. 2G, 1861, as a private in 
Company K, Fourth Regiment Ver- 
mont Volunteers; transferred to 
Company D Feb. 25, 1865; mustered 
out as corporal July 13, 1865. The 
Fourth Vermont was a part of the 
First Vermont Brigade, and fought 
in nearly every battle of the Army 
of the Potomac. Company K, to 
which Private Hardy belonged, was 
commanded during a portion of its 
service by Capt. A. W. Fisher, 
Dartmouth College, 1858. 

1869. Non-Grad. Marcus Mor- 
ton Holmes: Enlisted Aug. 20, 
1862, in Company H, Fourteenth 
New Hampshire Volunteers; ap- 
pointed first sergeant Jan. 20, 
1864; second lieutenant. May 27, 
1864; appointed first lieutenant 
Nov. 22, 1864; mustered out July 
8, 1865, on expiration of term of 
service of the regiment. The regi- 



ment serA'ed for several months in 
the Department of Washington, and 
afterwards in the Department of 
the Gulf. In July, 1864, the regi- 
ment was ordered North, and was a 
part of the army serving with Gen- 
eral Sheridan in the Shenandoah 
Valley until late in the year, when 
it was ordered to Savannah, in the 
vicinity of which city it remained 
until ordered North to be mustered 
out. 

1869. Non-Grad. Henry Foster 
Pratt: Enlisted as a private in 
Company F, Fourteenth Regiment 
New Hampshire Volunteers, Aug. 
13, 1862. Mustered in Sept. 23, 
1862, as a corporal; transferred to 
Company F, Thirteenth Veteran 
Reserve Corps, Oct. 10, 1864, as a 
private; discharged for disability 
June 22, 1865, at Concord, N. H. 
Died Oct. 1, 1866, at Winchester, 
N. H. 

For services of the Fourteenth 
New Hampshire see record of Wil- 
liam Cobleigh, non-graduate Dart- 
mouth College, 1865. 

1869. Henry Oscar Adams, D.M.C. : 
Enlisted Aug. 20, 1862, in Company 
B, Fifty-first Regiment Massachu- 
setts Volunteers; mustered out 
July 27, 1863, by reason of expira- 
tion of term of service. Served in 
North Carolina, and was in the 
engagements at Kinston and Golds- 
boro under General Foster, and on 
provost duty at Baltimore after the 
battle of Gettvsburg. 

1869. Charles Guy Cargill, D.M.C. : 
Enlisted Sept. 18, 1862, in Com- 
pany H, Sixteenth Regiment Ver- 
mont Volunteers, and was mustered 
out Aug. 10, 1863, by reason of ex- 
piration of term of service. 

The regiment belonged to the 
Second Vermont Brigade, and was 
commanded by Col. W. G. Veazey, 
Dartmouth College, 1859. The ser- 
vice of the regiment was mainly in 
the Department of Washington, but 
just before the battle of Gettysburg 
the brigade was attached to the 
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guished itself on the third day of 
that battle luuler General Stannard. 
Died June 17, 1900. 

1869. Nathaniel Small Davis, 
D.M.C.: Enlisted Oct. 13, 18G4, in 
Company B, Eleventh Maine Vol- 
unteers; mustered out July 5, 
1865. Died May 9, 188-4. 

1869. Henry Augustus Deane, 
D.M.C. : Was on the surgical stafY 
of the regular army as a medical 
cadet, with the rank of second lieu- 
tenant, being appointed to such 
position Feb. 27, 1865; was con- 
nected with the Dale Hospital at 
Worcester, Mass., during his whole 
term of service, which ended in 
November, 1805. 

1869. Charles Roderick Judson 
Kellam, D.M.C: Enlisted July 16, 
1861, in Company C, Third Regi- 
ment Vermont Volunteers, which 
was commanded by Capt. D. T. Cor- 
bin, Dartmouth College, 1857; dis- 
charged for disability Oct. 24, 1862. 
Enlisted the second time Dec. 7, 
1863, in Company H, Ninth Regi- 
ment Vennont Volunteers, and was 
discharged Dec. 3, 1863, for pro- 
motion as hospital steward U. S. 
Army. For history of the Third 
Vermont see sketch of Captain 
Corbin. 

The Ninth Vermont was serving 
in North Carolina when Mr. Kel- 
lam joined the regiment and con- 
tinued in active service in the vicin- 
ity of Newbern until Sept. 15, 1864, 
Avhen it was assigned to the Second 
Brigade, Second Division, Eigh- 
teenth Army Corps, Army of the 
James, commanded by Gen. E. 0. 
C. Ord. 

1869. Charles Colby Pike, D.M.C. : 
Enlisted as a private Aug. 9, 1862, 
in the Eleventh Regiment New 
Hampshire Volunteers; was se- 
verely wounded in the first battle 
of Fredericksburg Dec. 13, 1862; 
was carried to Harwood Hospital, 
at Washington, D. C, where he 
remained until discharged, April 
18, 1863. While convalescent in 
the hospital he did duty as a nurse, 



ward master, and acting hospital 
steward. Died Jan. 27, 1894, at 
Peabody, Mass. 

1870. Ira Anson Abbott: Enlisted 
Aug. 30, 1804, at Windsor, Vt., as 
a private in Company C, Ninth 
Vermont Volunteers ; discharged 
June 13, 1865, at Richmond, Va., by 
order of the War Department, dated 
May 29, 1865, by reason of the 
close of the war. He served in 
front of Richmond from early in 
October, 1864, until the evacuation 
of the Confederate capital, and was 
in several minor engagements dur- 
ing his term of service. The Ninth 
Vermont was with the advance 
column that entered Richmond the 
day following the evacuation of the 
city by President Davis and the 
Confederate forces. The Ninth 
Vermont was one of the regiments 
selected to go to New York City to 
guard against threatened violence 
at the presidential election in No- 
vember, 1864. 

1870. John Henry Allen: En- 
listed in Company H, First New 
Hampshire Heavy Artillery, Sept. 
2, 1864. The regiment was in camp 
at Concord, N. H. ; left Concord 
Sept. 19 for Washington, D. C, 
and garrisoned Fort Slocum for a 
few days. After being assigned to 
dvity for a short time in different 
forts, the regiment was finally as- 
signed to Fort W^ard Oct. 12, where 
it was drilled as heavy artillery. 
Mr. Allen was detailed Nov. 16, 
1864, as clerk at brigade headquar- 
ters. Nov. 27 he returned to his 
company, which was ordered to 
Fort Bayard, where it remained 
until mustered out of service. 
Soon after he was detailed as 
clerk for the assistant surgeon at 
the hospital near Fort Mansfield. 
Llr. Allen was discharged June 15, 
1865. 

1870. John Henry Hardy: En- 
listed on the 12th of September, 
, 1862, under the name of Henry J. 
Hardy, as a private in Company E, 
Fifteenth Regiment New Hamp- 



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shire Volunteers, for nine montlis' 
service, and was mustered out Aug. 
13, 1863, with this company. The 
regiment was on duty at Camp 
Parapet, above New Orleans, and 
at the siege of Port Hudson in the 
summer of 1862, but Mr. Hardy 
was detained at New Orleans in 
charge of sick comrades and was 
not present when the assault was 
made. He was only fifteen years 
of age when he enlisted. 

1870. James Lewis Merrill: En- 
listed as a private in Company 
D, Twenty-third Regiment Maine 
Volunteers, and was mustered into 
the United States service Sept. 29, 
1862 for nine months; mustered 
out July 15, 1803, by reason of the 
expiration of term of service. Died 
June 20, 1880, at Arlington, Mass. 

1870. Charles E. Putney: En- 
listed in Company C, Thirteenth 
Regiment New Hampshire Volun- 
teers, Aug. 16, 1862; mustered in 
September 19 as corporal; mus- 
tered out as sergeant June 21, 1865. 
Mr. Putney was with the regiment 
during its entire term of service. 
The regiment was originally com- 
posed largely of natiA-e Americans, 
some of New Hampshire's choicest 
young men. After a brief service 
near Fairfax Seminary, Va., early 
in December, 1862, it was ordered 
to join the Army of the Potomac, 
then under command of General 
Burnside near Fredericksburg, and 
was assigned to the division of 
General Getty. In the battle of 
Fredericksburg this body of new 
troops behaved like veterans, and 
suffered severely. During ils three 
years of service it was connected 
with the Ninth, Seventh, Eight- 
eenth, and Twentieth Corps, and 
served under Generals Ord, Gibbon, 
Stannard, and Devens. Under the 
latter it had the honor of lead- 
ing the advance at the occupation 
of Richmond, and its colors were 
the first to enter the city. It par- 
ticipated in the battles of Freder- 
icksburg, Suffolk, Bermuda Hun- 



dred, Cold Harbor, siege of Peters- 
burg, Mine Explosion, and Fort 
Harrison. 

1870. Jolm Henry War dwell: 
Enlisted Sept. 11, 1862, as a private 
in Company 1, Fifteenth Regiment 
New Hampshire Volunteers ; mus- 
tered in Oct. 14, 1862; mustered 
out of service Aug. 13, 1863. The 
Fifteenth New Hampshire Regi- 
ment served in the Department of 
the Gulf, and was attached to the 
Nineteenth Army Corps. It partici- 
pated in the siege of Port Hudson 
May 29 to July 9, 1863. Died July 
23, 1894. 

1870. Frank Asbury Sherman, 
C.S.D.: Enlisted July 28, 1862, in 
Company H, Twentieth Regiment 
Maine Volunteers, but was soon 
transferred, at his own request, to 
the Fourth Maine Regiment, which 
was then in the field on the Penin- 
sula, under McClellan; he joined 
the regiment at Alexandria, Va., 
and was assigned to Company H; 
his first battle was at Fredericks- 
burg in 1862, where he was wounded 
and sent to the hospital at Alex- 
andria, Va., and was there and at 
Portsmouth Grove, R. I., vmtil 
1803; from there he was sent to 
the Convalescent Camp near Alex- 
andria, Va., until after the battle 
of Gettysburg. He joined his regi- 
ment again near Upperville, Va.; 
continued with the army, doing his 
full share of duty imtil they settled 
down in winter quarters near Cvil- 
peper early in 1863. At the Battle 
of the Wilderness, May 5, 1864, he 
was wovmded in the left Avrist and 
left leg; the leg wound was slight, 
but the wrist wound was so serious 
as to cause amputation near the 
elbow joint. The time of the Fourth 
Regiment expired soon after, in 
June, 1864, and he, with other re- 
cruits, was transferred to the Nine- 
teenth ]\Iaine, from which he was 
discharged at United States General 
Hospital, at Augusta, Me. 

1870. Ira Thomas Bronson, 
D.M.C.: Enlisted Sept. 23, 1861, 



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in Company I, Fifth Regiment New 
Hampshire Volunteers, as hugler, 
and served with that regiment dur- 
ing its term of service, except when 
disabled by wounds; was slightly 
wounded at Fair Oaks and Peach 
Orchard, also at Antietam ; was 
promoted to corporal and sergeant 
January, 18G4, and commissioned 
Oct. 28, 1864, as first lieutenant 
Company C; was immediately made 
acting regimental quartermaster by 
general order; mustered out June 
28, 1805. 

1870. Robert Lane Ela, D.M.C.: 
Was commissioned captain Com- 
pany I, Sixth Regiment New Hamp- 
shire Volunteers, Nov. 30, 18G1; 
remustered as captain Nov. 30, 
1864; promoted major June 1, 
1865; mustered out July 17, 1865. 
The Sixth New Hampshire was a 
part of General Burnside's expedi- 
tion to North Carolina in January, 
1802, and continued in that depart- 
ment until July, 1802, when it was 
ordered to Virginia, and became a 
part of the Ninth Army Corps, with 
which it was afterwards identified. 
In the second battle of Bull Run the 
regiment was hotly engaged, and 
Captain Ela was severely wounded 
Aug. 29, 1802. After the battle of 
Fredericksburg the regiment was 
ordered West, where it remained 
until ordered home on veteran fur- 
lough in January, 1804. In March 
it joined the Army of the Potomac, 
and continued with that army until 
mustered out. At the battle of the 
Mine in front of Petersburg, July 
30, 1864, Captain Ela was again 
wounded. 

1870. Charles Gay lord, D.M.C.: 
Enlisted in 1801, and was appointed 
hospital steward; was afterwards 
promoted to assistant surgeon in 
the navy, where he served till the 
close of the war, most of the time 
in the Gulf Squadron. Died July 
28, 1888. 

1870. Non-Grad. William Wal- 
lace Roller: Enlisted as private 
in Company A, Sixty-fourth New 



York Volunteers, Sept. 7, 1801; 
promoted to second sergeant Nov. 
18, 1801; first sergeant, March 1, 
1862; sergeant major, July 1, 1862; 
commissioned second lieutenant 
Jan. 1, 1863; first lieutenant, 
March 31, 1803; captain, Jan. 18, 
1864. The regiment was organized 
at Elmira, N. Y.; left for Wash- 
ington Dec. 10, 1801; attached to 
General Casey's Provisional Divi- 
sion of the Army of the Potomac 
to January, 1802; Howard's bri- 
gade, Sumner's division. Army of 
the Potomac, to March, 1862; First 
Brigade, First Division, Second 
Corps, Army of the Potomac, to 
June, 1862; Fourth Brigade, First 
Division, Second Corps, to April, 
1863; Fourth Brigade, First Divi- 
sion, Second Corps, to June, 1865. 
The regiment did duty in the De- 
fences of Washington in March, 
1802; ordered to the Peninsula 
March 22; took part in all the 
battles of the Peninsular campaign, 
ending at Malvern Hill August, 
1802. Mr. Roller was wounded at 
Fair Oaks June 1, in his left hand. 
The regiment was also in the move- 
ment to Alexandria August 16 to 
30 ; battle of Antietam and subse- 
quent movements in the fall of 
1862; battle of Fredericksburg, De- 
cember 11 to 15; battle of Chancel- 
lorsville. May 1 to 3, 1803. Captain 
Roller was wounded May 3, in the 
right thigh and left arm. The 
Sixty-fourth New York Regiment 
was in the battle of Gettysburg July 
1, 2, and 3, 1863, and in all the 
campaigns of the Army of the Po- 
tomac during that season ; also in 
the campaigns of the same army in 
the spring and summer of 1864, up 
to the siege of Petersburg. Captain 
Roller was placed in command of 
the regiment on Oct. 21, 1864, and 
was in command until mustered out 
Oct. 30, 1864, at his own request, 
upon the expiration of his term of 
service. 
1871. Albert William Bacheler: 
Was mustered into service Sept. 6, 



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1862, in Company E, Twelfth Regi- 

- ment New Hampshire Volunteers. 
The regiment served continuously 
with the army of the Potomac until 
its muster out June 21, 18G5. Mr. 
Bacheler was in the following en- 
gagements : Fredericksburg, Chan- 
cellorsville, Grettysburg, under Gen- 
eral Sickles, Cold Harbor, Peters- 
burg, Drury's Bluff, Chapin's Farm, 
and capture of Richmond; was con- 
fined in Libby Prison from Nov. 17 
to Dec. 13, 1804, when he escaped; 
promoted to first lieutenant Com- 
pany A, Jan. 10, 18G5. In the battle 
of Cold Harbor the regiment lost 
55 per cent of its number in killed 
and wounded in twenty minutes. 

1871. Alvin Burleigh: Enlisted 
Sept. 2, 18G2, as a private in Com- 
pany B Fifteenth Regiment New 
Hampshire Volunteers; mustered in 
Oct. 8, 1862 ; mustered out of service 
Aug. 13, 1803. 

For record of the regiment see 
Sketch of John H. War dwell, Dart- 
mouth College, 1870. 

1871. Non-Grad. Frank Eugene 
Greenwood: Enlisted at the age of 
18 as a private in Company I, One 
Hundred and Forty-eighth Ohio Vol- 
unteers, May 2, 1864, for one hun- 
dred days, and was mustered out 
of service Sept. 24, 1864. The regi- 
ment was on duty at Harper's 
Ferry, W. Va., and was transferred 
to the Army of the James in June; 
was on duty in the trenches north 
of James River and City Point until 
Aug. 29, 1864, when it returned to 
Ohio. 

1871. Peleg Eedfield Kendall: 
Enlisted July 8, 1863, in Company 
L, Eleventh Regiment Vermont 
Volunteers (First Vermont Heavy 
Artillery), as a musician, being 
only fourteen years of age; mus- 
tered into service Oct. 9, 1863. 
Transferred to Company C June 24, 
1865; promoted corporal Aug. 1, 
1865; mustered out with regiment 
Aug. 25, 1865. His regiment served 
until May, 1864, in the forts around 
Washington as Heavy Artillery, 



then ordered to the front during 
Grant's campaign towards Rich- 
mond; became part of the Old Ver- 
mont Brigade at Cold Harbor; from 
this time its history is that of 
that organization. Died March 9, 
1891. 
1871. James Brackett Mason: 
Enlisted Aug. 22, 1802, in Company 

A, Fourteenth New Hampshire Vol- 
unteers; was discharged Feb. 2, 
1864, to accept promotion in the 
Thirty-first United States Colored 
Troops; was mustered in as first 
lieutenant in Company A, Thirty- 
first United States Colored Infantry, 
Feb. 4, 1864, and mustered out on 
Dec. 12, 1864; was wounded severely 
July 30, 1864, at the explosion of 
the mine in front of Petersburg. 

1871. Albert Hezekiah Porter: 
Enlisted at Bradford, Vt., Aug. 8, 
1862, in Company G, Tenth Regi- 
ment Vermont Volunteers, George 

B. Damon captain. The regiment 
was mustered into service Septem- 
ber 1. During the fall it did patrol 
duty along the line of the Potomac 
above Washington. In December 
it was on duty near Rockland, Md., 
where it spent about two months in 
drilling. From this time until 
June, 1863, the regiment was on 
guard duty along the line of the Po- 
tomac, with headquarters at Con- 
rad's Ferry. During the battle of 
Gettysburg the regiment was on 
duty at Frederick Junction, and 
soon after the battle joined the 
Third Corps of the Army of the 
Potomac, and was assigned to the 
Third Division; was engaged in 
following up the enemy towards 
Falling Waters. After the rebels 
had crossed the Potomac, the divi- 
sion to which the regiment was 
attached turned its course and pro- 
ceeded toward Maryland Heights, 
going down on the east side of 
Maryland Heights, and crossed the 
Potomac and Shenandoah rivers at 
Harper's Ferry in Virginia; from 
there marched down the Loudon 
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towards Richmond. After crossing 
the Rapidan River the army had 
a fight with the enemy, in wliich 
several men from Company E were 
mortally wounded. In this engage- 
ment Mr. Porter was wounded in 
the left hand and in the slioulder 
by a bullet, but his wounds were 
not so severe as to prevent him 
from keeping up with the regiment 
until the next day, when his wounds 
were dressed and he was sent to 
Fairfax Seminary Hospital. He 
soon recovered sufficiently to be 
sent home on a furlough, but on his 
return was transferred to the Vet- 
eran Reserve Corps. Not wishing 
to join this organization he asked 
to be allowed to remain where he 
w'as until he could be transferred to 
Vermont. In about a month the 
surgeon recommended his discharge, 
but it was disapproved and he was 
then transferred to the Eighty-sixth 
Company, Veteran Reserve Corps, 
Second Battalion, and did duty dur- 
ing the remainder of his term of 
service at Augur Hospital and Fair- 
fax Seminary Hospital. On the 3d 
day of October, 1864, he was dis- 
charged from the service, having 
served a little over two years. 

1871. Jonathan Smith: Enlisted 
Nov. 1, 1861, in Company E, Sixth 
Regiment New Hampshire Volun- 
teers; discharged Nov. 20, 1862, in 
Baltimore, INId., by reason of dis- 
ability. He served throvigh Burn- 
side's campaign in North Carolina, 
in 1862, and in Pope's campaign 
and a portion of McClellan's cam- 
paign, in Maryland, in the summer 
and early fall of the same year; re- 
enlisted in Company E, First New 
Hampshire Cavalry, Aug. 16, 1864; 
was appointed sergeant and dis- 
charged at Concord, N. H., with 
the regiment July 15, 1865, by 
reason of the close of the war. He 
never fully recovered from the hard- 
ships and exposures incurred in the 
service. 

1871. Henry Davis Wyatt: En- 
listed Sept. 15, 1862, in Company 



B, Fifteenth Regiment New Hamp- 
shire Volunteers; commissioned as 
lieutenant Nov. 3, 1862; discharged 
Aug. 13, 1863, by expiration of term 
of service. Tlie regiment served in 
the Department of the Oulf under 
General Banks, and was in the siege 
of Port Hudson from May 27 to 
July 9, 1863. Mr. Wyatt re-entered 
the service as assistant surgeon of 
the First United States Colored 
Heavy Artillery May 8, 1865, and 
was mustered out as of the same 
rank March 31, 1866. This regi- 
ment was organized at Knoxville, 
Tenn., and was in the battle of 
Decatur, Ala. 

1871. Frederick Hutchins, D.M.C.: 
Served forty days in April and May, 
1864, as second sergeant of a com- 
pany of rangers operating against 
the Indians in Humboldt County, 
Nev. In March, 1865, was appointed 
first lieutenant in Company E, 
Nevada Cavalry, United States Vol- 
unteers, and served until October 
29 of the same year. During this 
time he commanded a mixed com- 
pany of cavalry and infantry. 

1872. Henry Button Pierce: En- 
listed Aug. 19, 1864, as a private 
in Company G, Seventh Regiment, 
Vermont Volunteers; mustered out 
July 14, 1865. At the time of his 
enlistment the regiment was home 
from the Department of the Gulf 
on veteran furlough, and he was one 
of a large number of recruits who 
joined the regiment at that time. 
On the expiration of its veteran fur- 
lough, the Seventh was ordered back 
to New Orleans, where it was sta- 
tioned until February, 1865, when 
it was ordered to Mobile Point to 
take part in the siege of jNIobile. 
It was attached to the Thirteenth 
Corps commanded by Gen. Gordon 
Grainger, the commander of the de- 
partment being Gen. E. R. S. Canby. 
The Seventh took a prominent part 
in the siege of Spanish Fort — the 
strongest outlying fortification in 
the approach to Mobile on its east- 
ern side. The siege lasted thirteen 



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days. Several of the officers and 
men of the Seventh Vermont were 
specially mentioned for gallantry. 
The regiment participated in all the 
subsequent operations and skir- 
mishes of the campaign in and 
around Mobile. On the surrender 
of Gen. Richard Taylor's army the 
Seventh Vermont was ordered to 
Clarksville, Tex., as a part of the 
" army of observation." On the 
14tli of July, 130 one-year recruits 
were mustered out of service, Mr. 
Pierce being among them. 

1872. Willard Clougli Kempton, 
D.M.C.: Enlisted Sept. 11, 18G2, in 
the Fifteenth Regiment New Hamp- 
shire Volunteers; was appointed 
hospital steward of the same. The 
regiment was in Banks's expedition 
in the Department of the Gulf, 
and mustered out of service Aug. 13, 
1863. Dr. Kempton was afterwards 
commissioned assistant surgeon 
Seventh Regiment United States 
Colored Heavy Artillery Oct. 24, 
1804, and again as assistant sur- 
geon Second Regiment New Hamp- 
shire Volunteers Aug. 2G, 18G5; 
afterwards appointed acting assist- 
ant surgeon U. S. Army, and was 

• medical officer in charge of the post 
at Lynchburg, Va. Died Dec. 21, 
1895. 

1872. Daniel Webster Love joy: 
D.M.C. : Enlisted as a private in 
Company A, Sixteenth Vermont 
Volunteers, for nine months. This 
regiment was in the Second Ver- 
mont Brigade, which was com- 
manded by Gen. George J. Stan- 
nard. The regiment was commanded 
by Col. W. G. Veazey (Dart. Coll., 
1859), and was engaged in the bat- 
tles of Gettysburg in repelling the 
charge of Pickett's division on the 
Union lines on the third day of the 
battle. The regiment was mustered 
out of service in August, 1863. In 
September, 1864, Mr. Love joy en- 
listed as a private in the Ninth 
Regiment Vermont Volunteers, and 
remained during the war. Died 
July 18, 1880. 



1872. Charles Byron Nichols, 
D.M.C. : Was appointed acting third 
assistant engineer U. S. Navy Sept. 
30, 1864; served on U. S. S. "A. D. 
Vance " and " Shenandoah " ; dis- 
charged April 28, 1869. 

1872. David Boscoe Steere, 
D.M.C: Enlisted in Company A, 
One Hundred and Forty-seventh 
Regiment Illinois Infantry Volun- 
teers, Feb. 4, 1865, and was mus- 
tered out Jan. 20, 1866, at Savan- 
nah, Ga. The regiment was on duty 
in Georgia during its term of ser- 
vice, and was frequently engaged in 
skirmishes and expeditions until the 
close of the war. 

1873. Albert Shaw Herrick, 
D.M.C. : Enlisted in Company B, 
Thirty-second Regiment Maine Vol- 
unteers, Feb. 29, 1864; transferred 
by special order of War Department 
to Company B, Thirty-first Regi- 
ment of Maine Volunteers, Dec. 1, 
1864; mustered out June 12, 1865. 
Died June 5, 1882. 

1873. Amos Messer Jackson, 
D.M.C. : Enlisted as a private in 
Company F, Twenty-fourth Regi- 
ment Maine Volunteers, August, 
1862 ; promoted second lieutenant 
Sept. 16, 1862; afterwards promoted 
to first lieutenant, and detailed to 
the Signal Corps in November, 1862, 
and ordered to the Department of 
the Gulf, in the Banks expedition ; 
commissioned second lievitenant in 
the Signal Corps, U. S. Army, March 
3, 1863; served in the Signal Corps, 
in the field, till December, 1864, 
taking part in the campaigns of 
Port Hudson, Western Louisiana, 
and Texas; commissioned major of 
the Tenth United States Colored 
Heavy Artillery in December, 1864; 
was provost-marshal of New Orleans 
from July, 1865, to June, 1866; 
was brevetted lieutenant-colonel for 
faithful and meritorious services 
throughout the Avar; was mustered 
out of service Feb. 22, 1867. 

1873. Roswell Carleton Jenne, 
D.M.C: Enlisted Oct. 9, 1861, in 
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mont Volunteers; discharged for 
disability Oct. 24, 1862. He enlisted 
again Sept. 15, 1863, in Company !,■ 
Seventeenth Regiment Vermont Vol- 
unteers. Wounded and taken pris- 
oner Sept. 30, 1864; paroled Oct. 8, 
1864; wounded April 2, 1865; dis- 
charged Oct. 13, 1865. 

The Sixth Vermont was com- 
manded during Mr. Jenne's connec- 
tion with it by Col. Nathan Lord, 
Dartmouth Medical College, 1851. 
The Seventeenth Vermont was at- 
tached to the Ninth Army Corps 
and had a brief and bloody his- 
tory, placing the name of a battle- 
field on its colors for every month 
of its service, and was under al- 
most constant fire until Richmond 
fell. 

At the battle styled " Poplar 
Grove Church," Sept. 30, 1864, the 
regiment was hotly engaged, losing 
both Lieutenant-Colonel Cumings 
and Major Eaton. It was in this 
engagement that Corporal Jenne 
was wounded and taken prisoner. 

At the final attack on the Rebel 
lines at Petersburg, April 2, 1865, 
Griffin's brigade of the Ninth Army 
Corps led an assault on Fort Ma- 
hone, and the Seventeenth Vermont 
was in the front line suffering great 
losses, but carried over half a mile 
of the enemy's picket line and cap- 
tured 249 prisoners. In this as- 
sault Corporal Jenne was again 
wounded. Died April 14, 1894. 

1873. Smith Herbert Wade, 
D.M.C.: Enlisted March 25, 1865, 
in Company A, Fifth Regiment Ver- 
mont Volunteers, for one year; mus- 
tered out July 15, 1865, by reason 
of the close of the war. Died July 
25, 1888. 

1873. Eugene Wason, D.M.C. : En- 
listed Aug. 29, 1864, in Company 
D, Eighteenth Regiment New Hamp- 
shire Volunteers, as a musician, 
having been rejected in 1861, and 
subsequently six times, being under 
sixteen years of age. Was assigned 
to the Engineer Corps and served 
at various points on the Petersburg 



and Richmond fronts. In the spring 
of 1865 was transferred to First 
Division Ninth Army Corps, and 
remained with it until the close of 
the war. 

1874. Richard D. McGraw, D.M.C. : 
Was a second lieutenant, Fifth 
Regiment New York Volunteers, but 
no record of his service has been 
obtainable. Died Feb. 17, 1886. 

1875. Locero Jackson Gibbs, 
D.M.C: Enlisted Oct. 8, 1861, 
Company B, Eleventh Maine Vol- 
unteers, at the age of seventeen; 
discharged for disability at Wash- 
ington, D. C, May 12, 1862; re-en- 
listed Aug. 24, 1862, in the Eighth 
Regiment Maine Volunteers, which 
was then serving at Port Royal, 
S. C, and continued on duty in that 
department at Folly Island and Hil- 
ton Head until the spring of 1863, 
when it was ordered to join the 
Department of the James under Gen- 
eral Butler. The regiment took part 
in the battle of Drury's Bluff and 
in the different engagements along 
the Bermuda Hundred front in the 
advance on Richmond. On the 4th 
of June Mr. Gibbs was severely 
wounded, and was in the hospital 
for the following six months. After 
his return to the regiment, partici- 
pated in the fighting which re- 
sulted in the evacuation of Peters- 
burg and Richmond and the sur- 
render of General Lee. Mustered 
out as sergeant at Richmond, Va., 
Oct. 30, 1865, by reason of expira- 
tion of term of service. 

1876. Frederick James Harmon, 
D.M.C. : Enlisted as a private in 
Company D, Ninth Regiment Maine 
Volunteers, Sept. 29, 1864; served 
in the Department of North Caro- 
lina till July 13, 1865, when the 
regiment was mustered out by order 
of the W^ar Department. Died Aug. 
13, 1883. 

1876. Solomon Walker Young, 
D.M.C: Enlisted Aug. 16. 1862. in 
Company B, Twelfth Regiment New 
Hampshire Volunteers. Died Jan. 
30, 1890, at Pittsfield, N. H. 



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1877. Edward Charles Carrigan: 
Enlisted as a drummer boy in Com- 
pany K, Eleventh Regiment Ver- 
mont Volunteers (First Vermont 
Heavy Artillery), Dec. 3, 1863. 
Wounded June 1, 1864. Mustered 
out Aug. 25, 1865. Carrigan was 
a lad of only thirteen when he en- 
listed, but did full duty during his 
term of service. The regiment 
served in the forts around Washing- 
ton until May, 1864, when it was 
ordered to the front and became a 
part of the Vermont Brigade. Died 
Nov. 8, 1888. 

1877. Joseph Foster Land, D.M.C. : 
Was commissioned first lieutenant 
Company G, Twentieth Regiment 
Maine Volunteers, Aug. 9, 1862; 
promoted to captain Company H, 
Jan. 12, 1863; brevetted major 
March 13, 1865, for faithful and 
meritorious services during the war ; 
mustered out June 4, 1865. Major 
Land was in the following engage- 
ments : Antietam, Fredericksburg, 
Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, where 
his regiment occupied the extreme 
left of the line on Little Round Top, 
July 2, and participated in the 
severest engagements of that day, 
suffering great losses. Major Land 
was also in engagements at Rappa- 
hannock Station, IMine Run, siege 
of Petersburg, and Weldon Railroad. 

1878. Calvin Brewer Anderson: 
D.M.C: Enlisted Nov. 20, 1861, in 
Company F, First Regiment Ver- 
mont Cavalry; was taken prisoner 
May 24, 1862, while the regiment 

-was serving imder General Banks 
in the Shenandoah Valley; paroled 
Sept. 13, 1862; discharged for dis- 
ability Nov. 28, 1862. 
1878. Isaac Warren Starbird: 
D.M.C: Was mustered into the 
L'nited States service as captain 
of Company F, Nineteenth Maine 
Infantry Volunteers, Aug. 25, 1862, 
and was assigned to the Second 
Army Corps, Army of the Potomac. 
Was engaged in the battles of Fred- 
ericksburg, Chancellorsville, and 
Gettysburg. He had charge of a 



section of the skirmish line which 
received the advance of Pickett's 
division in its charge on the third 
day at Gettysburg, and was 
wounded but did not leave the field 
till the battle was over. Was in the 
movement that checked Lee's at- 
tempt to reach Washington in Octo- 
ber, 1863; also in the later move- 
ment to the Rapidan. In April, 
1864, he was appointed brigade in- 
spector of Mott's brigade, Fourth 
Division, Second Corps, and par- 
ticipated in all the battles of the 
campaign, viz.: Wilderness, Spott- 
sylvania. Cold Harbor, and the 
movement to Petersburg. Was 
promoted to be major of his regi- 
ment Aug. 16, 1864, and commanded 
it in the battle of Hatcher's Run in 
October. In this battle his regi- 
ment won great credit for coolness 
and gallantry. Commissioned lieu- 
tenant-colonel November 3, and col- 
onel, Nov. 11, 1864. He was a 
strict disciplinarian, and the com- 
mand was noted for its soldierly 
bearing. Colonel Starbird com- 
manded his regiment in the final 
battles at Petersburg and in the 
pursuit of Lee. Was prominently 
engaged in the battle of High 
Bridge on the Appomattox River. 
The regiment was ordered to pre- 
vent the enemy from destroying the 
carriage bridge, the only means of 
crossing the river. It was found to 
be on fire, but the flames were ex- 
tinguished, and the bridge saved. 
The enemy sent a brigade to re- 
take it, but the regiment stub- 
bornly resisted the attack and held 
possession of it till reinforcements 
arrived. In this battle Colonel 
Starbird was severely wounded and 
fell from his horse unconscious. For 
gallantry in this action he was 
brevetted brigadier-general. He car- 
ries in his body to this day the 
nearly fatal bullet. After the war, 
while in the customs service, he 
studied medicine, and graduated 
from Dartmouth Medical College 
Oct. 30, 1877. 



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1880. Daniel Waterhouse Niles, 
D.M.C.: Enlisted 9th day of Au- 
gust, 1864, in the Nineteenth Un- 
attached Massachusetts Volunteers, 
which was on duty at Fort Warren, 
Boston Harbor; discharged on the 
16th day of November, 1864, by rea- 
son of expiration of service. Died 
July 17, 1890, at Worcester, Mass. 

1880. Daniel Putnam Haynes, 
C.S.D.: Enlisted Sept. 3, 1864, in 
Company D, First Vermont Cav- 
alry, for one year. Mustered out 
June 21, 1865. At the time Mr. 
Haynes joined the regiment it was 
a part of Custer's division in 
Sheridan's command. Mr. Haynes 
participated in the battles of Cedar 
Creek, Brown's Gap, Five Forks, 
besides some minor engagements. 
Died Mav 24, 1903. 

1881. Milo Blodgett, D.M.C.: En- 
listed Sept. 21, 1862, in Company 
G, Fifteenth Regiment Vermont Vol- 
unteers, and was mustered out Aug. 
5, 1863, by reason of expiration of 



term of service. The Fifteenth 
Vermont was attached to the Second 
Vermont Brigade, and was com- 
manded by Colonel Redfield Proc- 
tor, Dartmouth College, 1851. 

1881. John Wesley Merrill, 
D.M.C.: Enlisted Aug. 22, 1861, 
Company D, Seventh Regiment 
Maine Volunteers. Promoted to be 
corporal. Discharged May 8, 1862, 
on account of disability. Died Jan. 
14, 1884. 

1884. Seth Newton Eastman, 
D.M.C.: Enlisted Sept. 26, 1861, in 
Company B, Sixth Regiment Ver- 
mont Volunteers. The regiment be- 
longed to the Old Vermont Brigade, 
and was commanded, when mustered 
into the service, by Col. Nathan 
Lord, Jr., Dartmouth College, 1851, 
a son of Nathan Lord, then presi- 
dent of Dartmouth College. At the 
battle of Savage Station, June 29, 
1862, Mr. Eastman was captured, 
paroled September 13, and mustered 
out Oct. 28, 1864. 



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INDEX 



Abbott, Alson Bailey, 111 

Amos Watson, 97 

Ira Anson, 123 

Adams, Henry Oscar, 122 

William Richards, 66 

Ainsworth, Frederick Smith, 

11 
Alexander, Samuel Judson, 

!)" 
Allen, .John Henry (1839), 
11 
John Henry (1870), 

123 
William Henry Harri- 
son, 4(5 
Alvord, Auffiistiis, 86 
Ambrose, Edwin Freeman, 

101 
Anderson, Calvin Brewer, 
130 
Henry Foster, 48 
Arms, Charles Carroll, 108 
Atherton, Henry Brydge, 66 
Atkinson, Samuel Peabody, 

111 
Ayer, .Tames McMillan, 74 
Otis, 16 

BAcnELER, Albert William, 

125 
Bacon, Francis, 104 
Henry. 60 
Henry McCobb, 41 
Badger, Constantine Chris- 
topher, 65 
William. 26 
Baker, Pisher Ames, 66 
Grenville Mellen, 113 
John Richards, 46 
John Waterman Har- 
ris, 20 
William Lawrence, 60 
Balch, Frank Kittredge, 110 
Baldwin., William Henry, 

90 
Bancroft, John Milton, 72 
Banfield, Joshua Stuart, 86 
Barker, Thomas Crumble, 2 
Barnard, William Alfred, 

72 
Barnes, Ira Norton, 46 
Bartholomew, Henry Lu- 
zerne, 102 
Bartlett, Charles William, 
119 
Ezra, 3 



Bartlett, George W^ashing- 

ton, 48 
Barton, Frederick Augus- 
tus, 2 

Ira McLaughlin, 92 
Batchelder, Josejih Cum- 

mings, 7 
Bates, Joseph Nye, 2 
liaxter. Myron Leslie, 90 
Beckley, Charles Chester, 

45 
Beecher, .Tames Chaplin, 26 
Beede, Samuel Folsom, 118 
Bell, George, 33 

John, 35 

Joseph Mills, 21 

Luther V., 1 
Bennett, Abner Blalsdell, 

24 
Bickmore, Albert Smith, 74 
Bixby, Amos Stoddard, 96 

George Holmes, 65 
Blaisdell, James Joshua, 24 

Kimball Foster, 118 
Blanchard, Enoch, 35 

Henry Charles, 34 
Blodgett, John Hardy, 104 

Milo, 131 
Blood, Charles Sullivan, 41 
Blunt, Ainsworth Emery, 

07 
Bodwell, Joseph Conner, 93 
Bond, Samuel Robert, 47 
Boynton, Everett, 28 
Bradford, Francis Ervlng, 

117 
Breed, Augustus Baxter, 

105 
Brett, Ben Cyrus, 78 
Brickett, George Edmund, 

24 
Bronson, Ira Thomas, 124 
lirooks, James Byron, 119 
Brown, Abram, 115 

Calvin Smith, 86 

David Henry, 80 

Marshall Ivpbanon, 84 

William Whittier, 5 
Bruce, George Anson, 80 
Buck, Thomas Elliott, 85 
Bucknam, John Wingate, 78 
I'.uckner, John Henry, 65 
r.ullard, Gates Bezaled, 48 
Bunten, William Elling- 

wood, 74 
Bunton, Sylvanus, 11 



Burleigh, Alvln, 126 
Burnap, Wilder Luke, 93 
Burnett, Clarence Linden, 

38 
Burnham, Samuel Oliver, 

46 
Burr, Sanford Smith, 93 
Butterfleld, J, Ware, 66 
Buzzell, Andrew James 

Hale, 45 

Caldwell, Charles, 101 
Henry Mills, 81 

Cameron, John Stark, 96 

("amp. Charles Henry, 74 

("arbee, Samuel Powers, 113 

Cargill, Charles Guy, 122 

Caileton, Charles Arms, 53 

<';ur. Robert William, 30 

Carrigan, Edward Charles, 
130 

Carroll, Charles Whiting, 
67 

Chamberlain, Oliver, 9 
William Mellen, 22 

Chamberlin, George Eph- 
raim, 74 

Chandler, George, 51 
George Henry, 75 

Chapman, .Toseph Stanley, 
108 

Chase, Albeft-t Appleton, 109 
Charles Monroe, 38 
Charles Warren, 92 
Edward Henry, 48 
Henry Melville, 102 
Howard Malcolm, 87 
James Morris, 105 

Cheney, Augustus Jackman, 
57 

Child, William, 59 

Church. Benjamin Silllman, 
50 

Clark, Augustus Blodgett, 
60 
Charles Peter, 48 
Edward Warren, 21 
John Howe, .53 
Joseph, 41 

Clarke, Isaac Lewis, 27 
Jonas Bowen, 10 
RjVislure Weld, 14 

Clary, (ieorge, 35 

("lcm(>nt, Nathaniel HolmeB, 
93 

Cohl), William Bangs, 59 



134 



INDEX 



Cobleigh, William, 110 
Cochran, Thomas Hamilton, 

12 
Cogswell, George Badger, 
59 
Thomas, 94 
William (1845), 23 
William (1859), 73 
Colby. Henry Lyman, 94 

Jonas, 2 
Colcord, Doane Blood, 11(5 
Cole, David Farnum, 81 
Collamore, George Anthony, 

41 
Colman, Nathaniel Bryant, 

114 
Colver, Nathaniel, 30 
Comings, Benjamin New- 
ton, 14 
Condit, Aaron Dayton, 118 
Conn, Granville Priest, 50 
Conner. Phineas Sanborn, 

67 
Converse. Charles Bell, 94 
Cook, Oi-el. 12 

William Nathaniel. 97 
Cooke, Albert Wheaton, 120 
Cooley, .Tames Calvin, 66 
Corbin, David Timothy, 53 
Cowles, Edward, 67 
Cram, Dewitt Clinton, 30 
Crandall, Richard Bailey. 

97 
Crane, Amos Waters, 87 
Crosby, Albert Harrison, 28 
Alpheiis Penning, 38 
George Avery, 36 
Hiram Benjamin, 41 
Stephen Moody. 28 
Thomas Russell. 12 
Cummings, William Garri- 
son, 97 
Cnrrier, Amos Noyes. 49 
Curtis. Heilge Charles. 90 
.Tonathan Strong. 22 
Cushman. Oliver Tucker, 98 
Cutter, Calvin, 4 

Damrell, Andrew Neaf, 85 
Darling, Lewis, 4 
Davis, All>ert Austin, 01 
Charles Augustine, 23 
Edmund, 81 
Henry Clinton, 98 
Nathaniel Small. 123 
Orris Orange, 103 
William Wallace. 98 
Deane, Henry Augustus. 

123 
Dearborn. Sam Gerrish. 32 

Samuel Quarles. 75 
Deney, .Tames Henry, 68 
Denny, Edward Watson, 54 
Dewey, .Tohn Worthington, 

46 
Dickinson, Chase Hall, 68 
Daniel Ashley, 75 
Edward Curran, 31 



Dickinson, William, 17 
Dimick, Orland Wales. 108 
Dimock, Daniel Wright, 117 
Doane, Henry, 54 
Dodge, George Webb, 31 

Levi Parker. 103 
Dorr, .Tames Colby, 37 
Douglass, Charles Lee, 90 
Dow, Hiram, 5 
I»i-ew, .Toseph William, 21 
Duhigg, I>ennis, 99 
Duncan, Samuel Augustus, 

61 
Durkee, Samuel Thompson, 

50 
Dustin, Daniel, 25 
Dyke, Horace Meeker, 61 

Eastman, George Washing- 
ton, 23 
John Robie, 87 
Josiah Calef, 10 
Seth Newton, 131 
Eaton, Benjamin Franklin, 
79 
Chester Williams, 72 
John, 41 

Lucien Bonaparte, 69 
Ela, Robert Lane. 125 
Eldredge, Frederick Au- 
gustus, 114 
Elliott, Eugene Stanhope, 

108 
Ellis, William Baldwin, 65 
Ely, Henry Guy, 111 
Emerson, Frank. 10 
Estabrook, George William, 

81 
Evans, Harrison D., 105 

Moses, 20 
Everett, William, 24 
Ewins, Francis C, 105 

Fales, Philetus, 28 
Farnsworth, Simeon Dow. 

42 
Farr, Evarts Worcester, 99 

George, 87 
Fay, Gewrge Washington, 28 
Fellows, Charles Meli'ov, 90 

Stark. 88 
Fessenden. Ilpwett Chand- 
ler, 10 

William Henry. 90 
Fisher, Abial Walstein, 61 
Fiske, Francis Skinner, 17 
Fitch. Calvin Webster, 105 
Plagg. Samuel. 12 

William Ijapham, 94 
Fletcher, Frank Hopkins, 
61 

William ICelly, 75 
Fogg, David Sylvester, 24 
Pollet, John Atwood. 54 
Folsom, James Dnnforth, 32 
Foster, Charles, 11 

Charles Lee, 75 

Daniel, 12 



Poster, John Luther, 101 

Richard Baxter, 33 
Fowler, Hadley Bradley, 34 
Franklin, James Burnham, 

120 
Freeman, Otis Russell, 20 
French, John Ordway, 22 
Frost, Carlton Pennington, 
36 
Edwin Brant, 62 
Henry Martyn, 54 
Fuller, Henry William, 54 

Gage, William Tenney, 101 
Galbraith, William John, 55 
Gale, Ezra White, 18 
Garey, George Quincy, 111 
Gates, Clarence Dyer, 92 
Gaylord, Charles, 125 
George, Ira Peaa-son, 117 
Gerould, Samuel Lankton, 

62 
Gibbs, Locero Jackson, 129 
Gibson, Francis Newton, 

90 
Gill. George Fuller, 88 
Gillett, ileman Hosford, 

25 
Gilman, Zeeb, 94 
Gilpatrick, Rufus, 4 
Goodall, Francis Henry, 58 
Goodhue, David Putney, 96 
Goodwin, David Marks, 59 
Goss, Story Norman, 59 
Govan, William, 10 
Grant, Jasper Spurzheim, 
82 

William Henry, 79 
Gray, Adoniram .Tudson, 85 
Greeley, .Tames B., 51 

Stephen Sewall Nor- 
ton, 5 
Green, Henry Bartlett. 85 

Richard Henry. 103 
Greene, Charles Warren, 
119 

Daniel Crosby, 101 

Edwin. 94 

Moses Collins. 7 

Roger Sherman. 69 
Greenwood, Frank Eugene, 

126 
Grosvenor, .Toseph Willis- 
ton. 69 
Guppey, .Toshua .Tames, 18 

Haddock, Charles. 21 
Hale. Oscar Adrian, 76 
Haley, Timothy Avans. 118 

William riearborn, 120 
Hall, Daniel, 42 

Obadiah Jackson, 34 
Hardy, George Washington, 
122 

Hiram Tenney, 117 

.Tohn Henry, 123 
Harlow, Lewis Davis, 19 

Roscoe Lincoln, 40 



INDEX 



135 



Harmon, Frederick James, 

129 
Harris, Geoi-Re Dexter, 103 
Haskell, Franklin Aretas, 

Haskins, Leander Miller, 90 
Hayes, Charles, 109 

Charles CoRswell, 28 

John Alfred, 91 
Ilavnes, Daniel Putnam, 

131 
Hazelton, John Biirsin, 59 

Moses Kittredse, 55 
Hazen. Albert Elijah, 99 
Herrick. AUyert siiaw, 128 

Edward Elisha, 51 

William Slade. 76 
Hersey, Albert James, 69 
Heysinser. Isaac W., 100 
Hidden, John Stevenson, 26 
Hiland, Thomas. 91 
inidreth, Thaddeus, 51 

William Hart. 118 
Hitchcock, Alfred Augus- 
tus, 09 
Hixon, Lloyd Wells, 55 
Ilobart, Harrison Carroll, 

14 
Hobbs, Benjamin, 96 

George Frank, 88 

Ichabod Goodwin, 101 

Isaac Wallingford, 70 
Ilodgdon, George Enos, 82 
Hoitt, George Irving, 111 
Ilollenbush, Calvin Gross, 

38 
Holmes, Marcus Morton, 

122 
Hood, Wendell Phillips, 108 
Houston, Edwin Ruthven, 

51 
Hovey, Charles Edward. 36 

Edwin Lafayette, 106 
Howard, George Canning, 

110 
Howe, Ellas Wilkins, 101 
Hoyt. Alpheus Enos, 103 

Otis, 10 
Hubbard, Charles Law- 
rence. 108 

George Francis. 104 
Hudnut. Joseph Opdyke, 29 
Hume, Harrison, ll.') 
Hunkins. Seth Challis, 24 
Hunt, Charles William, 59 

Ebenezer, 1 

Franklin Lambert, 85 

John Reed, 106 

Simeon, 88 
Huntoon, Andrew Jackson, 

45 
Huntress, Joseph, 22 
Hurd, Yorick Gordon, 46 
Huse, Hiram Augustus. 109 
Ilutchins. Arthur Edwin, 55 

Frederick. 127 
Hutchinson, John Holt, 86 
Hyde, Melvin John, 37 



Ii)i:, George Henry, 109 
Iinlay, Frederick Clarence, 

29 
Ingraham, Andrew, 88 
Ingram. Alexander, 62 
Irwiu. John Nichol, 115 

Jackson, Amos Messer, 128 

Edward Payson, 79 
Jenkins, Alonzo. 100 
Jenne, Roswell Carleton, 

128 
Jenness, Joseph Kendall, 

10(> 
Jewett, Charles Cogswell, 

31 
Johnson, James Edwin, 49 

John Edgar, 112 
Johnston, Edward Payson, 

94 
Jones. Amos Byron, 82 

Norman, 50 
Jordan, Geo. Henry, 74 
Judkins, Emery Glidden, 40 

Kellam, Charles Roderick 

Judson, 123 
Kempton, Willard Clough, 

128 
Kendall, Frederick Augus- 
tus, 79 
Peleg Redfleld, 126 
Kenney, Stephen Bartlett, 

103 
Ketcham, William Alexan- 
der, 115 
Kimball, Charles Webster, 
100 
Gilman, 2 
John. 49 

John Marshall, 29 
Kingman. Hosea, 101 
Kinney, Cliarles, 32 
Kinsman. Edward Center, 
37 
Jonathan Burnham, 4 
Kittredge, Charles Frank- 
lin, 94 
Knight, Edwin Augustus, 
100 
liUther Martin, 5 
Knowles, John Adams, 80 

Ladd. John Johnson, 37 
Nathaniel Gould. 1 
Ijamprey. Maitland Charles, 

94 
Lamson. John Augustus, 38 
Land. Joseph Foster, 130 
Lane, George Byron, 117 
Leavitt, Almond Orlando, 

49 
Le Bosquet, John Brooks, 

106 
liocky, Thomas, 116 
T>(>onard. Reeves. 70 
Lincoln, Nathan Smith, 31 



Linsley, Rollin Orlando, 

121 
Little, Arthur, 70 

Charles, 77 
Long. Alanson Bertram, 63 

Henry Clay, 13 
Lord, Francis Brown, 49 

Nathan, 33 
Lovejoy, Daniel Webster, 

128 
Lyon, George Armstrong, 
63 

Malone, John Duhig. 119 
Manchester, Darwin L., 117 
Manson, Charles A., 107 
Marden, George Augustus, 

82 
Marion, Horace Eugene, 

113 
Marsh, .James Edwin, 51 
Marshall, William Pitt, 72 
Marston. Gilman. 7 

Simon Rufus. 47 
Mason, James Brackett, 
126 
Lemuel Bickford, 21 
Rufus Osgood, 44 
Mathewson, Harley Phil- 
lips, 96 
McAllister, James, 121 
McDufifee. Horace Green- 
leaf, 85 
McGraw, Richard D., 129 
McLeran, Benjamin, 88 
McQuesten, Calvin Brooks, 
103 
Charles Augustine, 103 
Melcher, Samuel Henry. 35 
Merriam, Ephraim Carlos, 
104 
Sidney Augustus, 82 
Merrill. Charles Amos, 107 
James Lewis, 124 
John Wesley. 131 
Merrow, James Munroe, 72 
Mitchell, Ezra. 118 
Modica, Frank Barward, 

109 
Mooar, Jacob Washington, 

01 
Moore. David Comstock, 79 
Morrill, Charles Willard. 95 

Stephen Sergeant, 47 
Morris. George Sylvester, 
82 
Nelson Howard. 119 
Morse, George Washington, 
121 
Ijaroy Frederick, 104 
Moulton. Albert Alonzo. 32 
Murry. Samuel Francis. Ill 
Mussey, Reuben Delevan, 
45 

Nkai.. Elias Craig. 63 

.loseph Perkins. 112 
Nelson, John Franklin, 100 



136 



INDEX 



Newell, Arthur Clark, 107 

Henry Clay, 77 
Newman, Albert, 34 
Nichols, Charles Byron, 128 
Niles, Daniel Waterhouse, 

131 
Noyes, Edward Follansbee, 
56 
Edwin Marcellus, 79 
Oilman, 92 
Nutter, David Robinson, 
109 

Oakes, Valentine B., 38 
Odell. .Joseph Warren, 37 
O'Donnell, Edward Joseph, 
110 
.Tames Stafford, 59 
Ordronaux, .John, 32 

Page, Harlan Winslow, 82 

Henry Pitt, 83 
Palmer, Edwin Franklin. 88 

George Harrison, 23 
Parker, Charles Edmund, 
77 

Charles Irving, 100 

Edward Everett, 121 

Ezra Burleigh, 77 

Ezra Knight, 56 

George, 77 

Henry Elijah, 13 
Parkinson, Royal, 15 
Parsons. William Bost- 

wick, 49 
Pattee, Asa Flanders. 72 
Patten. William Aaron, 20 

William Robie, 83 
Patterson, .Joab Nelson, 77 

.John Henry, 116 
Peables. Andrew Mitchell, 

104 
Pearson, Benjamin Hana- 

ford. 13 
Pease, Clarke Oilman, 23 
Perkins, Francis William, 
83 

.Tames Warren, 102 
Perrin, William Burton, 112 
Petit, Frederick Hasen, 12 
Pierce, Henry Dutton, 127 
Pike, Charles Colby. 123 
Pingree, Samuel Everett, 57 
I'inkbam, George Edwin. 96 
Piper, William Wirt, 118 
Pollard, Henry Moses, 58 
Porter, Albert Hezekiah, 

126 
Potter, Alvah Kimball, 92 
Pratt, Chester Delano, 100 

Henry Foster, 122 
Price, Reuben Webster, 91 
Proctor, Redfleld, 33 
Putnam, Arthur Alwyn, 51 

Samuel. Porter, 93 
Putney, Charles E., 124 

Frank Alpheus, 100 
John Alvin, 49 



Putney, William Alexander, 
109 

QuiGGj David, 47 
Quimby, George Washing- 
ton, 70 
Quint, Alonzo Hall, 24 

Rand; Howard, 107 
John Milton, 73 
Stephen, 05 
Redington, Edward Dana, 

83 
Reynolds, William Buzzell, 

37 
Richards, John, 34 
Richardson, Charles Tyng, 
84 
W^entworth Ricker, 37 
Robinson, Oscar David, 122 
Roller, William Wallace, 

125 
Rollins, John Rodman, 6 
Ross, George Eugene, 70 
Jonathan Smith, 20 
Rowe, Elihu Thayer, 12 
Rowell, Edward Thomas, 84 

George Edwards, 111 
Runnels, Moses Thurston, 

39 
Russell, Daniel Byron, 102 
Ira, 13 

Sabin, Levi Parsons, 50 
Sanborn, Noah, 91 

Thomas, 13 

Thomas Lancaster, 63 
Sanger, Eugene Francis, 30 
Sargent, Charles Henry, 
109 

Fernando Coello, 114 
Sawin, William Jackson, 48 
Sawtelle, Lyman Beecher, 

111 
Scammell, Lucius Leslie, 8 
Schenck, Washington La- 
fayette. 30 
Scott. John F., 107 
Sewall, Samuel Green, 22 
Sharpe, Jacob, 50 
Shaw, Henry Charles, 65 

I^ucius Stearns, 57 
Shenk, Rudolph Warfel, 63 
Shepley, George Foster, 8 
Sherman, Frank Asbury, 
124 

Henry Stoddard, 112 
Skinner, Calvin, 13 
Sleeper, Iluliert, 79 
Small, Horatio Nelson. 96 
Smith, Andrew Robinson 
Giddinge, 118 

Baxter Perry, 45 

Charles Clifford. 40 

Henry Hilliard, 73 

Hermon Joseph, 118 

Isaac. 96 

Jonathan, 127 



Smith, Samuel Morse, 63 
Sidney Leroy, 48 
Verres N., 60 
Souther, Samuel, 15 
Spalding, Samuel Jones, 15 
Starbird. Isaac Warren, 130 
Starr, Darius, 107- 
Stearns. Joseph Oliver, 84 
Steele, John, 86 
Steere, David Roscoe, 128 
Stevens, Bela Nettleton, 45 
Chester Colton, 100 
Norman Curtis, 17 
Thaddeus. 60 
William Burnham, 109 
Stone, William Payson, 6 
Straw, Samuel Burbank, 1 
Sturgis, James Gorham, 114 
Swett, Atwell William, 104 

Talbot^ Charles Carroll, 

107 
Taylor, George Harvey, 89 
Tebbetts, Charles Carroll, 

24 
Tenney. Chas. Harper, 73 
Tewksbury, Malcolm Web- 
ster, 64 
Thacher, Seth Tracy, 22 
Thomas, Alfred Addison, 

116 
Thompson, Ai Baker, 64 
John Leverett, 52 
William Luther, 64 
Thrasher, Charles Wood- 
bury, 52 
Tolman, Moody Cook, 32 
Topliff, Charles Clinton, 73 
Towle, Benjamin Newell, 51 
Charles Augustus, 101 
Towne, Francis Laban, 79 
Townsend, Luther Tracy, 

70 
Tracy, John Jay, 102 

William Carter, 64 
Tredick, John, 78 

Upham, Jabez Baxter, 16 
Nathaniel Lord, 39 

Veazey, Wheelock Graves, 

71 
Vittum, David Sands, 23 

Wade, Smith Herbert, 129 
Wadleigh, Gilbert, 24 
Wadsworth, Peleg, 71 
Wainwright, George Albert, 

66 
Walker, Isaac, 98 
Walton, Benjamin, 1 
Wardwell, Henry, 113 
John Henry. 124 
Warner, Abner Spicer, 16 
Warren, John Sidney, 89 
Washburn, Peter Thacher, 

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INDEX 



137 



Wason, Eugene, 129 
Watts, James Edward, 108 
Webster, Claudius Bu- 
chanan, 

John, 18 

John Calvin, 102 

Joseph Dana, 2 
Weeks, Franklin Christo- 
pher, 65 
Welles, Samuel, 90 
Wells, Henry Martyn, 57 
Wheeler, John, 32 

Phineas Ilowe, 110 
Whitaker, James Monroe, 
84 



White, Carlos, 118 

Edward Kirk, 116 
George Henry, 101 
(Jeorge Thompson, 78 
Moses Hazen, 16 

Whittemore, Henry, 113 

Wiggin, Augustus Wiswall, 
89 

Wight, Eli Mellen, 114 

Wilbur, Nelson. 102 

Williams, Gustavus Brown, 
(!5 

Willis, Lemuel Murray, 26 

Wilson, Arthur Hervey, 104 

Wood, Albert, 50 



Wood. Edward Jessup, 39 

Henry, 1 
Woodbury, Eri Davidson, 
95 
George Edward, 79 
Woodman, Charles Carroll, 
110 
Charles William, 2 
Woodward, George Wheel- 

ock, 2 
Wyatt, Henry Davis, 127 

Young, Charles Augustus, 
40. 
Solomon Walker, 129 








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